Motherhood

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  • Opened October 23, 2009 
  • 1 hr 30 min
  • PG-13 | language, sexual references and a brief drug comment
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 15+. More on child suitability

  • From writer/director Katherine Dieckmann, the acclaimed filmmaker of “Diggers” and “A Good Baby,” comes “Motherhood,” starring Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Eliza Welch (Thurman) is a former fiction writer-turned-mom-blogger with her own site, “The Bjorn Identity.” Putting her deeper creative ambitions on hold to raise her two children, Eliza lives and works in two rent-stabilized apartments in a walk-up tenement building smack in the middle of an otherwise upscale Greenwich Village. Eliza’s good-natured but absent-minded husband (Edwards) seems tuned out to his wife’s conflicts, not to mention basic domestic reality, while her best friend Sheila (Minnie Driver) understands this – and Eliza -- all too well. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver, Matthew Schallipp, David Schallipp, Daisy Tahan, Alice Drummond
  • Director: Katherine Dieckmann
  • Genres: Comedy

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70
The Hollywood Reporter
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Neither earth-shaking nor profound, but it has considerable charm, thanks to an appealing cast and some sharply witty observations about the pressures of child-rearing in Manhattan. Read full review

67
Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

Parenthood seems only half aware of Eliza's REAL problem: that she thinks she's superior to the choices she's made. Read full review

50
San Francisco Chronicle
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The movie's narrative tension hinges on, well, nothing. Read full review

50
USA Today
| Claudia Puig

When it aims for humor, it feels overwrought and clichéd. Read full review

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A scene from "Motherhood."