Motherhood

"Motherhood" is a great movie for anyone who has a busy life, has or has had children, and understands the chaos this brings. It has a good storyline, if you have a sense of humor. It tells with terrific detail the hectic way of life with kids. It's funny, a tad sad (especially if you are the "mom") and a good way to relax for a couple of hours. Uma makes all the big and little details of day to day life very real. I loved it and watch it pretty regularly.

Good quality. Okay movie

It started out to be a nice comedy about motherhood and I have 6 grandchildren so I expected it to be a totally clean movie. Watching it with my 2 youngest granddaughters ages 11 and 8, I was shocked to say the least when one of the main characters' friends referred to an incident of masturbating in her tub with her son's battery operated tub toy. Thank God they didn't ask me any questions. I was mortified. Can't Hollywood produce a decent family comedy without some veiled reference to the sex act?Otherwise, they did a good job of showing her mounting frustration as she tried to carry out her motherly and business duties in a timely fashion while still being efficient at both but come on people. Some things about single parents don't need to be discussed on the big screen. It's private.

Personally, I didn't really like the movie. Maybe it was because I thought that it was too depressing for me. I have enough drama in my life to be able to sit still and watch another woman and her drama. I have only watched it once, and it is not really on my favorites list.:)As far as quality goes, it was great, and I have no complaints. I got it in the mail pretty fast..

I don't typically write reviews, but I do read them before I buy something. This movie was $7 for a Blu Ray, and having kids myself, thought it would be fun to watch the mom running around trying to get things done. The movie got decent reviews and I bought it.We had movie night with my parents, who are addicted to watching movies, as well as my husband and I are. My parents went back home after 20 minutes as they couldn't take it anymore. We watched the rest, but it was painful.What we thought would be a fast-paced fun movie to watch, ended up being a slow and depressing movie. This family lives in a small apartment in New York, where there have to take stairs up and down several times a day. They have a very old car and a bicycle to run their errands. The husband seems like a jerk the entire movie (which ends up not being the case). The mom doesn't really run around all day, but what we see is her struggling through the day going shopping for her daughter's 6th birthday party on her bicycle and coming back exhausted from it. The movie shows how difficult it is for that particular family to handle daily tasks and the complications of adding extra things to the "to-do-list", such as having to move their car constantly because they live in New York city and the fear of losing their parking space. I did not relate to them in any way. We live in the suburbs with a house and a decent car and we have never had to rush out to move our car or do our shopping on a bike. The movie was very slow. I can see how someone living in New York could relate, but anyone else would probably not.If you think you're going to see a "comedy", it's not. The movie makes bad references about all types of mom: the normal mom (Uma Thurman), the crazy organic mom, the single (and pregnant) mom, the rich mom who everything seems perfect and easy, the mom-arrazzy... This is a movie that we will never watch again, even though I love Uma Thurman. Ugh.... it was such a wast of our time.I even watched the trailer before I purchased the movie. Not what I expected.I hope this will help someone out there.

This is a very sweet and endearing movies for all mothers or mothers to be. I bought for all my "mothers" for Mother's Day. Makes you really appreciate motherhood and all the joys children bring to your life.

I've seen some Uma Thurman movies, that were funny, enjoyable, and entertaining. Regretably this wasn't one of them. I too often see a character I like, an actor I like, a pretense that seems 'cute' and buy the movie. Jack Black in Nacho Libre, and the video store clerk movie, both bombs in my book, though I like Jack Black. I should have read the reviews prior to purchase, I probably would not have purchased this film

Greenwhich Village, NY (specifically the west village) provides the backdrop for this totally fun romantic comedy about a mom who has to plan out one crazy, yet typical mom-day that in this instance includes tonight's 6 year b-day party, but also includes protecting her car, saving her bike, getting the right goodie-bags, befriending her friend (Minnie Driver)and of course writing her blog about being a mom. Whew....Uma Thurman, in a role so entirely different than anything she's done before, plays 'mom' and is fantastic! Her relationship with her husband (Anthony Edwards) seem quite real-life in that he wants to be of help but hey... he is a man, right? There IS a bit of magic between them indeed and while it might not be on the scale of "Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan" (yet), it peeks through nonetheless and proves itself by the end of the film in a scene sure to win you over entirely. I could envision the two together in more films going forward...Minnie Driver plays the perfect supporting role as 'insightful best friend' and while the movie runs along a somewhat predictable course at times, it also provides some very nice surprises and follows that formula that always wins while laying in some interesting insights into what it's like to be a mom. I can see the mommy-blogs launching new discussions for sure and a plethora of subjects. OK OK... I realize that I am not a mom, but I am married to one...If you enjoy films like Moonstruck, Sleepless in Seattle, Mask, You've Got Mail and so on, Motherhood is a likely winner for you.

This is such a quaint, funny and memorable film, if you have children you will find Uma Thurman totally endearing as a mother who is trying to juggle her kids with her career and still manage to laugh about it all at the end of the day..really great film! :)

My daughter loved this

It's ok but quite long winded and boring in places.Fairly good story line. Most mothers can relate to it :-)

This film hasn't had particularly good reviews and though I really liked it , I suppose I can see why, It is solely aimed at amusing mothers who can relate to the struggles and joys of motherhood.I understood the message of the film perfectly, as a single parent and found it fairly amusing , though it didn't make me laugh out loud, it was a nice little film which I would recommend to my mummy friends.

This movie is OK, not hilarious but you will have some laughs.Well, if you are a fan of Uma Thurman, I guess this should be in your collection.Unfortunately, the UK DVD is another worthless release. No thanks to Metrodome Distribution.> No subtitles, no closed-captions> Hard-to-skip advertising> No chapteringSome good points :> the original aspect ratio is 16:9 anamorphic> the audio mixing is normal (5.1 Dolby Digital + 2.0 Dolby Stereo)> the price is very cheap