1/27/2019 1 Comment Mothers and Daughters (2016)Somehow Mothers and Daughters takes 10 minutes from every mother-daughter movie/tv show and meshes them all together then adds some famous people and that’s it- that’s the movie. My mother and I watched this movie together, and for the first hour, we were very confused about why we continued to watch it. I thought it was a complete mess and there were too many things happening to give let the viewer connect with the characters. The movie starts with a band photographer who is living the dream then finds out she is pregnant with her ex-boyfriend’s baby. But before we can even process that we switch to a long list of other mother-daughter relationships including: couture bra designer who gave up her daughter for adoption decades ago, a woman who just found out her sister is actually her mom; a bickering mother-daughter duo; an estranged mother-daughter duo; a male rock star who bonds with his mom over the remorse he feels for taking advantage of a drunk woman; and, a father-son who lost their wife/son recently. If this hasn’t completely overwhelmed you yet, there is a young woman who is dying with leukemia, and I’m not even sure what she adds to the movie since she isn’t pictured with her mother.
There were too many characters that it was impossible to connect with any of them. I think that if Paul Duddridge and Nigel Levy directed this as a mini-series- setup like Amazon’s The Romanoffs (independent stories but all attached somehow) it would’ve been fantastic. I liked the independent stories, but it was weird how the movie switched back and forth between them all. Despite all of this, it did accomplish the emotion that was aimed for. Rugby, the photographer documenting these relationships, closes the movie with a monologue basically saying that a mother's love is so strong that you don’t understand until a woman has a daughter. It was heartwarming and made me feel bad for the multiple times that I have been rude to my mother or did something to make her disappointed in me. I will say that at the end, when the plot came together, my mom and I had a great time watching this movie that documented other mother-daughter relationships.
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