Mother’s Day movies

Instead of making mom breakfast in bed for Mother’s Day, why not curl up on the couch with some delicious treats and watch these Mother’s Day movies.

•  Stepmom. Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents are divorced and that there is a new woman in their father’s life: Isabel, a successful photographer. She does her best to treat the children in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad, but also loves her work and does not plan to give it up. But Jackie, a full-time mother, regards Isabel’s efforts as offensively insufficient. She can’t understand that work can be important to her as well as the children. The conflict between them is deepened by the sudden diagnoses of cancer, which might be deadly for Jackie. They all have to learn a little in order to grow together.
•  Mermaids. After yet another failed relationship, Mrs Flax (Cher) moves her family to the east coast to start all over again. Reluctantly dragged along with her is her daughter Charlotte – going through a very confusing time of her life – who wants to become a nun, and instead falls in love with a quiet, mild-mannered church employee, to the mixed response of her mother.
•  Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Siddalee, a famous New York playwright, is quoted in Time magazine and infuriates her dramatic, Southern mother. A long-distant fight wages until her mother’s friends (and members of the Yaya Sisterhood) kidnap Siddalee and take her “home” to the South, where they hope to explain her mother’s history and to patch up the rift between mother and daughter.
•  Freaky Friday. The wide generation gap between Tess Coleman and her teenage daughter Anna is more than evident. They simply cannot understand each other’s preferences. On a Thursday night they have a big argument in a Chinese restaurant. Both receive a fortune cookie each from the restaurant owner’s mother which causes them to switch bodies next day. As they adjust with their new personalities, they begin to understand each other more and eventually it’s the mutual self-respect that sorts things out.