Motherhood (2009)
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Motherhood (2009)

Genre
Drama, Comedy
Release Date
October 23, 2009
Studio
Freestyle Releasing
Official Site
http://www.motherhoodthefilm.com/
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Release Date
October 23, 2009
MPAA Rating
PG-13
Duration
90 minute(s)
Production Budget
5
Studio
Freestyle Releasing
Official Site
http://www.motherhoodthefilm.com/
Director
Katherine Dieckmann
Producer
Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen
Screenwriter
Katherine Dieckmann
Starring

From writer/director Katherine Dieckmann, the acclaimed filmmaker of DIGGERS and A GOOD BABY, comes MOTHERHOOD, starring Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot entirely on location in New York's West Village, this bittersweet comedy distills the dilemmas of the maternal state (marriage, work, self, and not necessarily in that order) into the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day. MOTHERHOOD forms a genre of one - no other movie has dedicated itself in quite this way to probing exactly what it takes to be a mother, with both wry humor and an acute sense of authenticity.

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.