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- 1997
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 44 m
- 1997
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 44 m
Summary A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.
Directed By: Albert Brooks
Written By: Monica Mcgowan Johnson, Albert Brooks
- 1997
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 44 m
- 1997
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 44 m
Mother
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Summary A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.
Directed By: Albert Brooks
Written By: Monica Mcgowan Johnson, Albert Brooks
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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82% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
76
82% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
18% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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This wonderfully wry, painfully funny comedy about a middle-aged boy and his mother is Albert Brooks' most accessible movie. [17 Jan 1997, p.03E]
Simultaneously smart and myopic, sneaky and forgetful, the mother Debbie Reynolds plays in Albert Brooks' Mother always keeps you guessing. [10 Jan 1997, p.F1]
Mother has a slyly subversive premise and a terrific and commandingly comic role for a woman - which immediately sets it apart from most other American films - and Debbie Reynolds pounces on it with such savvy and self-assurance that it reminds us how funny self-possession can be in the right hands. [10 Jan 1997, p.C3]
At least by Hollywood's conservative standards, Mother proves that the wayward son is alive and well -- softer in manner but still a subversive at heart. [10 Jan 1997, p.C1]
There aren't many films which tackle the generation gap between middle-aged kids and their old folks with such unsentimental comic acuity - and Reynolds essays her best role in three decades with delectable good grace and charm.
Brooks brings vast reserves of quarrelsome, hairsplitting hilarity to the story of a man going mano a mano with his sweet little mom.
Mother is a relationship comedy, like Woody Allen's films, and it screams for the smart, elastic pacing that Allen creates. The situations are funny -- 40- year-old John moves into his old bedroom, goes shopping with Mother, is shocked that she has a boyfriend and occasionally curses and smokes -- but his poor timing flattens most of those scenes.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Online Film & Television Association
• 2 Nominations
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
