Already this year, I’ve seen two movies about whiny, inferiority-complexed women who seek personal validation by writing blogs about their put-upon lives.
First came “Julie & Julia” featuring Amy Adams as a blogger out to cook up all of Julia Child’s French recipes. She was cute, despite being shallow and irritating.
Now comes Katherine Dieckmann’s “Motherhood” starring Uma Thurman as an unemployed Manhattanite mommy who struggles to get by on a limited budget, struggles to deal with her eccentric hubby (Anthony Edwards) who won’t answer his cell phone, struggles to walk up the steps of her elevatorless high-rise, struggles to raise two cute kids and struggles to keep viewers awake. (Read more…) Rated: PG-13 (sexual and drug references, plus language). 90 minutes.
Opens Friday, October 23 at local theaters.