Movie Review

Motherhood (2009)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Oct 23, 2009

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

B-

Details Limited Release: Oct 23, 2009; Rated: PG-13; Length: 90 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Anthony Edwards and Uma Thurman

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MOMMY THEORIST Uma Thurman is a writer struggling with modern maternity in Motherhood

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Director Katherine Dieckmann's comedy is about the messy everyday hysteria that too many odes to parenthood leave out. As Eliza, a former bohemian trying to hold on to her ''creative'' side even as she's become a frazzled mother of two, Uma Thurman turns every task — shopping for a birthday party, retaining a parking space — into an operatic fit of neurosis. She's quite funny, but her performance is at once winning and overstated. Parenthood seems only half aware of Eliza's real problem: that she thinks she's superior to the choices she's made. B-

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Originally posted Oct 21, 2009 Published in issue #1073 Oct 30, 2009 Order article reprints

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