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As much as I understand that this could have been an obvious choice, did the PR team working on this movie not realise how cliché this move was?
Moving away fromthe release date, the story follows the lives of five mothers. Sandy is a divorced mother of two boys, whose ex-husband has eloped with a woman many years his junior. Miranda, a successful writer, who put her only child up for adoption at birth. Jesse, who never sees her mother, and has to come to terms with the failing relationship between she and her parents. Jesse and her sister keep their children from seeing their grandparents, because her parents are homophobic Texans and Jesse's sister is in a lesbian relationship. Bradley, who is a widowed father of two daughters, who is still grieving the loss of his wife.
I know that reading the above is hard to process. I'm afraid that the movie follows similar course. Five story lines, which are all somehow interconnected by subplots. Watching this movie feels like you're following 10 story lines. The movie was filmed with the intention of it being a feel-good film, but it failed at fulfilling that intention. The script is so predictable, forced and cheesy. Watching a feel-good move is supposed to make you laugh or make you feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. The inclusion of racial 'jokes', which were written with the intention of being funny, were sure to make the viewer feel uncomfortable.
This movie was cringe-worthy, cheesy and predictable. If you are looking for a feel-good movie, I would suggest you stick to Disney in this case.
2/5
Gayaneh
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