[A] sharp comedy.
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10/22/09
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Motherhood (2009)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:8
Rotten:23
Average Rating:4/10
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.
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for Motherhood
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
gets stuck in the starting gate, unsure of what kind of film it wants to be.
10/22/09
The lesson, I guess, is that it really sucks being a mom, but it's also incredibly unrewarding.
10/22/09
What Eliza writes, like Motherhood itself, feels like a stale collection of harried-parent material that the bland comedy duo The Mommies milked dry more than a decade ago.
10/20/09
A pleasing, lighthearted look at the mommy wars.
10/22/09
Top CriticMotherhood is a deceptive film that seems to be one thing when it starts %u2013 and then turns a corner and becomes something else, something deeper and more perceptive.
10/21/09
[Thurman is] quite funny, but her performance is at once winning and overstated.
10/21/09
In 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
If Ms. Dieckmann really thinks that people communicate as inanely as she has written this script, then we are all doomed.
10/23/09
Too 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
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
...inept...ill-conceived, and amateurish...an insult to full time Mothers and motherhood.
10/24/09
Motherhood never comes to term.
10/22/09
You 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
Though pregnant with possibility, Motherhood fails to deliver.
09/01/09
Top CriticUnfortunately, nothing here digs too deep.
10/23/09
It scares straight any wishful daydreams about parenting, living in Manhattan and even looking like Uma Thurman.
10/23/09
Dieckmann nails the look of a certain niche of urban neo-middle-class living, but the film's hyper-earnest tone and reliance on "day-from-hell" New York clichés overwhelm those details.
10/20/09
So focuses on Eliza's need to look out for number one that [the film] obscures the reasons people become parents, winding up with a movie light on love and heavy on narcissism.
10/22/09
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