Review Mother’s Day movie

Happy Mother’s Day everyone. If your years of dedicated service to family have netted you a movie voucher, then well done you, it was all worth it wasn’t it? If you did, or if your Mother’s Day didn’t go exactly as planned, I suggest you take yourself off to see the movie Mother’s Day. And if you’re not a mum this is a perfect movie to see with your mother (though not today as I imagine it will be a full house).

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Directed by Garry Marshall (Pretty Woman, New Years Eve and Valentines Day) the film Mother’s Day takes a look at what it is to be a modern day mum through the eyes of four families setting out to celebrate Mother’s Day.

First up Sandy (Jennifer Anniston), recently separated, she’s circumnavigating shared custody with her ex Henry (Timothy Olyphant) which is working out just fine, until his new and much younger fiancé enters the picture.

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Sandy’s friend Jesse (Kate Hudson) on the other hand has a wonderful relationship with her husband and child, trouble is she has to keep them a secret from her own parents, the less accepting Lance (Hector Elizondo) and Flo (Margo Martindale).

Whereas Kirstin (Britt Robertson) loves being a new mum but is avoiding her boyfriend (Jack Whitehall) proposals because of issues resulting from the absence of her own birth mother.

Mr Mum’s also feature thanks to Bradley (Jason Sudeikis) who’s struggling to cope with raising his girls after the tragic loss of his wife.

Lastly Miranda (Julia Roberts) has been too busy working to have children.

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Each relationship provides a different vignette on the messiness of current day parental duties.

Mother’s Day is a hilarious, thought provoking, sometimes cringe worthy offering from a terrific ensemble cast. Anniston and Sudeikis were great as you’d expect, as was Roberts although the wig was a little distracting. However Jesse’s mother (Martindale) was priceless, and it was a particular delight to watch Jack Whitehall do his thing on the big screen.

As I set the table for Mother’s Day lunch, flashbacks from the movie had me pondering …

1. After watching a series of dark emotional dramas that seemed to focus on growing old and death it was nice to see a lighter, feel good but still thought provoking movie.
2. It was an interesting casting move to have Anniston as the mother and Roberts as the workaholic.
3. Director Marshall seems to be working through the calendar, I look forward to his Christmas movie
4. Stay for the credits that give an insight into some of the problems of working with people you know well.
5. But mostly I pondered about what mum had to put up with when I was growing up, she’ll be getting a bigger hug today that’s for sure.

Mother’s Day is now showing at a number of outlets including Hotys.  For a trailer click here.