Mothers and daughters: a relationship so often mined by Hollywood that maybe all the diamonds are gone and all that’s left are duds.
This movie is a dud, but not for lack of trying. Susan Sarandon, plus real-life daughter Eva Amurri Martino, and Sharon Stone, and Courteney Cox, and Selma Blair, and Christina Ricci, and probably more besides that I’m forgetting. That’s an awful lot of leading ladies covering pretty much every angle of motherhood that you can imagine. In fact, one of the 
reasons this movie fails is that it tries too hard. The script is just so stupidly earnest. It makes wonderful actresses say such flighty, cliched things. And everyone cries all the time, at the drop of a hat. It made me really wonder why the script writer has so many fucking hats, and why she’s always dropping them. Secure your hat to your head, lady.
Mira Sorvino. That’s who I was forgetting.
Anyway, are your tear ducts all clogged up? Do you have some salt water that needs purging? Were you hoping to remove one tiny strip of makeup all the way down your face? Then have I got a movie for you! Mothers and Daughters doesn’t just ask you to cry, it begs. The director probably owns stock in Kleenex. But it’s the kind of shame-crying that only makes you mad at your stupid emotions and the things that make you feel them. I watched this on Netflix at 2am, when it is perfectly acceptable to cry watching a movie you loathe as long as you have Doritos to keep you company.
The writing is ambitious, but ambitious in the way that a 19 year old writes a memoir. People will be so impressed when I use all my big words! I have a thesaurus and I
want you to watch me abuse it! I’m going to write a trite little movie that wishes it was a pretentious little novel! Script writing 101 says I should put in a conflict here! [Insert conflict]. I wonder if Sharon Stone can do polysyllabics? Either way she’ll be impressed when I whip out this tired metaphor! And I’ll make it super relatable by including a variety of white women with down-to-earth jobs like bra designer, fashion icon, and celebrity photographer. And I wonder if I can work in cancer? Watch out, heart strings!
In conclusion, Mothers and Daughters is a movie I found randomly on Netflix, having never heard of it before despite starring at least 3 Oscar-nominated actresses. It will be palatable to neither mothers nor daughters but it’s definitely a movie that exists. The end.
ASSHOLES WATCHING MOVIES 
Oh Jay, we need to watch a movie together and eat Doritos at 2 am.
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Why not eh?
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my Virgo brain would probably over-analyze, eh?
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haha great review JAy, but you should be getting some zeds at that time of the day 🙂 x
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I’m not a night sleeper. Or much of a sleeper generally.
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ha, I like this review…LOL
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Great post 🙂 Despite not having seen it, why do I get the strange feeling that it comes off as one of Lifetime network films? Anyway, keep up the great work as always 🙂
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You’re not far off the mark. That would be more honest.
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Jay,
There’s a formula here…. I can’t do the math without sounding like a total prick though.
RR
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I vaguely recall this movie coming out. I passed on it for a reason. Glad I was right.
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You have a good memory. This one slipped me by.
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“It’s definitely a movie that exists.” Sadly, despite this ringing endorsement, I think I’ll give it a miss and do my washing instead.
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Well don’t say I didn’t try! 🙂
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Nothing makes my teeth decay more than this type of “women’s picture” where I really hope they all go in a convertible and drive off a cliff.
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Haha.
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ohhh boy.. well i just love your descriptiveness of this bomb:) Jay. too bad all those big names. …
so your not much of a sleeper..eh? what’cha afraid you’ll miss something>?:) lol. i can say that cuz im not much of one either.. and i guess thats why….
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I wish I could sleep. I just never really learned how. I don’t know how to turn off my brain.
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Oh I hear ya, I don’t think there’s a cure for it either , take it from me 😂😎
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Ouch. I’ll ignore this one if I spot it.
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” but it’s definitely a movie that exists. The end.” LOL! Loved that. Made me laugh.
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Sometimes these things just write themselves 😉
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I am impressed you were up at 2 in the morning. It’s an hour I remember seeing back in the day…
Also, Mira Sorvino! I still think of her as Romy. I haven’t watched that movie in so long. Perhaps it deserves a viewing soon.
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Thanks, another one I was curious about and will go ahead and skip.
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