GM BNUI

GM BNUI https://www.timeout.com/film/movie-moms-the-50-most-classic-movie-mothers-of-all-time

Sad-sack novelist John (Albert Brooks, who also directs) decides to move back in with retired mom Beatrice (Debbie Reyno...
27/01/2022

Sad-sack novelist John (Albert Brooks, who also directs) decides to move back in with retired mom Beatrice (Debbie Reynolds). She’s always ready to irritate him with criticisms, suggestions and too-intimate details, but there’s something undeniably loving in her aggravating demeanor—you want to choke her and hold her close at once.—Keith Uhlich

We tip our hats to Louise Beavers in the 1934 version, but it’s Juanita Moore’s portrayal of a long-suffering African-Am...
27/01/2022

We tip our hats to Louise Beavers in the 1934 version, but it’s Juanita Moore’s portrayal of a long-suffering African-American maid in Douglas Sirk’s remake that truly stuns us. The way she radiates love for the passing-for-white daughter who shuns her puts the heart in heartbreaking.—David Fear

Joan Bennett’s middle-class housewife is so concerned for her daughter that she disposes of the co**se of the adolescent...
27/01/2022

Joan Bennett’s middle-class housewife is so concerned for her daughter that she disposes of the co**se of the adolescent girl’s shady older boyfriend, an accidental fatality. Then James Mason’s smooth-talking blackmailer comes on the scene and Max Ophüls’s film noir deepens into a portrait of a lady who will do anything to maintain the familial status quo.—Keith Uhlich

A bemused, no-nonsense presence in many of her son’s movies, Catherine Scorsese injects a lovable strand of mystificatio...
27/01/2022

A bemused, no-nonsense presence in many of her son’s movies, Catherine Scorsese injects a lovable strand of mystification in stories that often race ahead. We cherish her in Marty’s gangster classic, as she throws together an impromptu midnight feast, lends her son a butcher knife and breaks balls: “Why don’t you get yourself a nice girl?”—Joshua Rothkopf

From home movies, photographs and answering-machine messages, Jonathan Caouette stitches together this intensely persona...
27/01/2022

From home movies, photographs and answering-machine messages, Jonathan Caouette stitches together this intensely personal documentary about his painful upbringing. At the center of the emotional whirlwind is Caouette’s mentally ill mother, Renee, whose frequent schizophrenic outbursts push her son away, only to draw him devotedly back.—Keith Uhlich

The tag-team parenting of Julianne Moore and Annette Bening in this understated lesbian-mom drama is so relaxed and natu...
27/01/2022

The tag-team parenting of Julianne Moore and Annette Bening in this understated lesbian-mom drama is so relaxed and natural, it’s hard to single out one of the actors as tops. But we give the edge to the hardworking Bening, consumed with doubt, anxiety and justifiable rage as her character’s happy home unravels.—Joshua Rothkopf

Accidental time-traveler Michael J. Fox has plenty of headaches: How to get back to 1985 while passing for an everyday ’...
27/01/2022

Accidental time-traveler Michael J. Fox has plenty of headaches: How to get back to 1985 while passing for an everyday ’50s teen? The last thing he needs is to meet a youthful version of his dowdy mother (Lea Thompson, excellent in both eras), who calls him “Calvin” because of his underwear and lays the flirtation on thick. Eww.—Joshua Rothkopf

Most of us think our moms are super; Holly Hunter’s crime-fighting Elastigirl actually is superheroic. As part of the do...
27/01/2022

Most of us think our moms are super; Holly Hunter’s crime-fighting Elastigirl actually is superheroic. As part of the do-gooder family in this Pixar gem, Hunter only wants a normal life for her kids—but she’s not afraid to use her stretchy limbs or become a human parachute when their safety calls for it.—David Fear

Shirley MacLaine’s brassy buttinsky of a mother is a loving nuisance throughout the troubles of her alternately adoring ...
27/01/2022

Shirley MacLaine’s brassy buttinsky of a mother is a loving nuisance throughout the troubles of her alternately adoring and exasperated daughter (Debra Winger). The emotions between the two deepen as this classic weepie winds its way to a devastating climax that would force even the most dispassionate parent and child into a tight embrace.—Keith Uhlich

Kenneth Branagh’s film about a working class Northern Irish family during the Troubles is highly watchable for many reas...
27/01/2022

Kenneth Branagh’s film about a working class Northern Irish family during the Troubles is highly watchable for many reasons, but it’s Outlander star Caitriona Balfe’s performance that landed it on this list. Playing the mother of nine-year-old Buddy, she is radiant and generous, a caring figure who wants nothing more than to protect her family from the violence and uncertainty of Belfast during that time. She’s steadfast as a parent, too, refusing to allow her son to tumble into behaviours that could lead him astray. The perfect mom, if you ask us.— Alim Kheraj

The title alone triggers spasms of maternal hysteria and the movie doesn’t disappoint: Supermom Sally Field warily heads...
27/01/2022

The title alone triggers spasms of maternal hysteria and the movie doesn’t disappoint: Supermom Sally Field warily heads to Iran with her foreign-born husband and their pr***en child. But after her spouse displays some scary Islamofascist tendencies, Field’s race to escape begins—and she’s got some baggage.—Joshua Rothkopf

Greer Garson was so identified with this film’s saintly WWII-era mother that she later did Miniveresque public appearanc...
27/01/2022

Greer Garson was so identified with this film’s saintly WWII-era mother that she later did Miniveresque public appearances to help sell the war effort. Never mind that she eventually married Richard Ney, who played her son (!); the role forever made Garson a symbol for every Blitz-blasted British mum who kept the home front intact.—David Fear

Address

Lviv

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when GM BNUI posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category