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20 Great Movies to Watch with Mom this Mother's Day

ALIENS (1986)
What, you don't see how this is a mom-appropriate film? In case you've forgotten, Aliens is about a woman named Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), reeling from the discovery of her own daughter's demise, who finds herself having to play surrogate mother to a young orphan named Newt (Carrie Henn). Yes, there are vicious extra-terrestrials with acid for blood that are hell-bent on impregnating humanity with their brood. And, yes, there's a whole bunch of heavily armed Colonial Marines who blow stuff up real good. But at its core, James Cameron's movie is about two women learning to reconnect. —Marc Bernardin