Mother (1996)
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91% of critics liked it
(43 reviews) -
63% of users liked it
(5,779 ratings)
An overprotective mother tries everything she can think of to keep her child from ever leaving home. When friends and family start turning up dead, a tragic secret is revealed.
- Directed By
- Albert Brooks
- Written By
- Albert Brooks, Monica Johnson
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Mar 14, 1996 Wide
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
It wasn't the automatic laughter produced by slam-dunk punch lines, but the laughter of recognition, of insight, even sometimes of squirmy discomfort, as the truths hit close to home.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
For the most part its droll humor rubbed me the right way despite its pat facile conclusion and all the product placements.
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Robert Roten, Laramie Movie Scope
The best foreign language film of 2010.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
For people who believe that a grown-up son can never go home again, Brook's serio comedy, one of the few Hollywood pictures dealing with mother-son relationship in a poignant way, came as a surprise; Debbie Reynolds in a comeback turn is great.
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Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
Off-putting and uncomfortable ... but still pretty funny.
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Cast
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Albert Brooks
as John Henderson
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Debbie Reynolds
as Beatrice
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Rob Morrow
as Jeff
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Lisa Kudrow
as Linda
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John C. McGinley
as John's Buddy
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Isabel Glasser
as Cheryl
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Rosalind Allen
as Woman at Gas Station
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Peter White
as Charles
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Billye Ree Wallace
as old woman in grocery store
- Mary Alice
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Katherine Borowitz
as Marie
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Joan Cusack
as Annie
- Anna Levine
- Bellina Logan
- Anne Meara
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Adrian Pasdar
as George
- Anne Pitoniak
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Anne Bancroft
as Mrs. Fanning
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Stephen Lang
as Boss
