Whiny and self-involved, Thurman's mother of two sees judgment around every corner and believes the universe has conspired against her because the bakery misspelled her daughter's name on a birthday cake.
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Motherhood (2009)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:8
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Despite Uma Thurman's comic skills, Motherhood's contrived set-ups and cliched jokes keep this comedy from delivering laughs -- or insights into modern parenting.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Oct 23, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $50,081
Synopsis: Shot entirely on location in New York’s West Village, MOTHERHOOD is a comedy distilling the dilemmas of the maternal state into the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day. MOTHERHOOD forms a... [More]
Starring: Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver, Samantha Bee
Director: Katherine Dieckmann
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Reviews for Motherhood
Top CriticIn a few brief moments, Thurman's Eliza springs to life... but it's not Thurman's fault that those moments are few and far between.
11/02/09
Motherhood gives upper-middle-class whining a bad name.
10/26/09
Top Critic...inept...ill-conceived, and amateurish...an insult to full time Mothers and motherhood.
10/24/09
Portrays a time-starved mother who is willing to throw herself into parenting but also realizes the need to care for her own soul.
10/23/09
Unfortunately, nothing here digs too deep.
10/23/09
Top CriticToo bad the writing didn't include (Thurman) lopping off people's heads, sort of a sequel to her "Kill Bill" roles. Now 90 minutes of that could be entertaining.
10/23/09
The humor is soft, the dramas are small, and the movie stumbles from loose and scruffy naturalism to sitcom tidiness.
10/23/09
Top CriticIf Ms. Dieckmann really thinks that people communicate as inanely as she has written this script, then we are all doomed.
10/23/09
It scares straight any wishful daydreams about parenting, living in Manhattan and even looking like Uma Thurman.
10/23/09
Parenting dramedy entertains but unlikely to appeal to kids.
10/23/09
Uma, overload. Overload, Uma.
10/23/09
If Carrie Bradshaw ever trades her Manolos for sneakers and starts blogging about raising children, I pray she wouldn't be as tiresome as the heroine of Katherine Dieckmann's insufferable comedy Motherhood.
10/23/09
Top Critic[Motherhood] not only overdoes its premise, but it's hampered by several flaws. When it tries to be serious, it's too earnest, and when it tries to strike a chord, it's banal.
10/23/09
Top CriticMisguided, cluttered, annoying mess of a dramedy, a film only moderately redeemed by the still-luminous Thurman, but even she is dragged down by a truly awful screenplay. Mothers still get no respect.
10/22/09
The lesson, I guess, is that it really sucks being a mom, but it's also incredibly unrewarding.
10/22/09
[A] sharp comedy.
10/22/09
A pleasing, lighthearted look at the mommy wars.
10/22/09
Top CriticMany films have been made about the perils of parenthood, but none with a more attractive and entertaining mom on the verge of a nervous breakdown than Uma Thurman in Motherhood.
10/22/09
Top CriticYou can see the movie wants to comment on all the frustrations of urban motherhood, but it does so only shallowly. How did having children kill Eliza’s “fiercely lyrical’’ fiction career? The movie isn’t that political or reflective.
10/22/09
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