The 2013 Mother’s Day is just around the corner. Mother, to
the world you might just be one person, but to one person you might just be the
world. Various ways are available for people to celebrate this annual holiday.
One of these ways is to watch motherhood themed movies on Mother’s Day with our
dear moms. Movies on Mothers represent a
separate class. True feelings, unconditional love and the motherly feel are
main ingredients of classy Mother's Day movies. In recent times, motherhood has
been considered as a perfect subject to work upon and many movie makers have
come out with ultimate movies on mothers. A simple and sweet movie can create
wonders on this day for your mom if it is based on the relationship you share
with her. So, enjoy this Mother's Day in a special manner by watching a special
movie with your darling mom.
If you're running out of ideas on what kind of special
activity you can plan to do this year, why not consider the below top 10 Mother's
Day movies to watch with your mom? These motherhood movies have been long
considered as the most popular and suitable movies to watch on Mother’s Day. If
you happen to get a Mother’s Day movie Blu-ray disc but want to watch Mother’s
Day Blu-ray movie on your iPad mini, currently you can get a free Blu-ray Ripper during the Mother's Day Giveaway until May 20, 2013 to solve
the format incompatibility issues and convert Mother’s Day Blu-ray movies to iPad mini without any cost. Well, take a look at the 10
most popular Mother’s Day movies listed below and get your own shot.
Stella Dallas (1937)
Working-class Stella Martin marries high-end Stephen Dallas
and soon they have a daughter named Laurel. But Stephen’s incessant demands of
Stella to become what she isn’t leads to their eventual separation. Stephen
later marries Helen Morrison (his prior fiancée), and Laurel becomes the focus
of Stella’s life and love. Nothing is too good for Laurel as far as Stella is
concerned. Determined to give her all the advantages, she takes Laurel on a
trip to an expensive resort where Laurel makes friends with rich kids. After an
embarrassing incident, Stella realizes that her daughter would go farther in
life without Stella as her mother. Her subsequent sacrifice is shattering.
Son of Two Mothers Or
the Comedy of Innocence (2000)
A woman begins to wonder if her young son is who she thinks
he is in this psychological suspense story. Ariane and Pierre (Isabelle Huppert
and Denis Podalydes) are the busy parents of a nine-year-old son, Camille (Nils
Hugon). Camille feels neglected by his hard-working mom and dad and often seems
to drift into a world of his own, preferring his imaginary friends to other
children or his nanny Helene (Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre). One day, Camille
startles Ariane by announcing he wants to live with his real mother -- and
proceeds to lead her to an apartment across town, where Ariane is introduced to
a stranger named Isabella (Jeanne Balibar). Camille seems to know all the nooks
and crannies of Isabella's flat, and the latter insists that he is her lost son
Paul, who actually drowned two years ago. Unsure of what to do, Ariane decides
to play along, going so far as to allow Isabella to stay in the family's home
as she tries to resolve Camille's dilemma with the help of her brother Serge
(Charles Berling), a psychiatrist.
Auntie Mame
Mame is an unconventional individualist socialite from the
roaring 20's. When her brother dies, she is forced to raise her nephew Patrick.
However, Patrick's father has designated an executor to his will to protect the
boy from absorbing too much of Mame's rather unconventional perspective.
Patrick and Mame become devoted to each other in spite of this restriction, and
together journey through Patrick's childhood and the great depression, amidst
some rather zaney adventures.
Riding in Cars with
Boys (2001)
Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio,
the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an
event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious
in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but
good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter's problems, and her mother was a
nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a
keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college
in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest
in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school.
However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a
party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend
her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another,
Beverly discovers she's pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less
difficult.
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film
directed by Herbert Ross that stars Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia
Dukakis, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah and Julia Roberts.
The film is about the bond among a group of women from a
parish in the Natchitoches, Louisiana, area. The movie is based on a 1987 play
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, which in turn dealt with the playwright's
experience with the death of his sister.
The title suggests the main female characters can be as
delicate as magnolias, but are as tough as steel. The magnolia specifically
references a magnolia tree they are arguing about at the beginning.
Alice Doesn't Live
Here Anymore
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American drama
film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Robert Getchell. It stars Ellen
Burstyn as a widow who travels with her preteen son across the American
Southwest in search of a better life, along with Alfred Lutter as her son and
Kris Kristofferson as a man they meet along the way. This is Martin Scorsese's
fourth film. The film co-stars Billy Green Bush, Diane Ladd, Valerie Curtin,
Lelia Goldoni, Lane Bradbury, Vic Tayback, Jodie Foster (in one of her earliest
movie appearances), and Harvey Keitel.
Ellen Burstyn won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance, and the
film won the BAFTA Award for Best Film.
All About My Mother
All About My Mother (Spanish: Todo sobre mi madre) is a 1999
Spanish-French drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The film
deals with complex issues such as AIDS, transvestitism, faith, and
existentialism.
The plot originates in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower
of My Secret which shows student doctors being trained in how to persuade
grieving relatives to allow organs to be used for transplant, focusing on the
mother of a teenager killed in a road accident.
Erin Brockovich
(2000)
Erin Brockovich is a 2000 biographical film directed by Steven
Soderbergh. The film is a dramatization of the story of Erin Brockovich, played
by Julia Roberts, who fought against the US West Coast energy corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Roberts won the Academy Award, Golden Globe,
Screen Actors' Guild Award and BAFTA for Best Actress. The film itself was also
nominated for Best Picture and Best Director for Steven Soderbergh at the 73rd
Academy Awards. It is based on a true story, and the real Erin Brockovich has a
cameo appearance around 9'10" as a waitress named Julia, her first name
being Roberts' first name.
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American drama film directed by
William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Teresa Wright.
Based on the fictional English housewife created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a
series of newspaper columns, the film won six Academy Awards, including Best
Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Director.
The Sound of Music
(1965)
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965
American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and
Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of
Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with
the musical book written by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel
Crouse. Ernest Lehman wrote the screenplay. The musical originated with the
book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. It contains many
popular songs, including "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things",
"Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", "Sixteen Going on
Seventeen", and "The Lonely Goatherd", as well as the title
song.
The movie version was filmed on location in Salzburg,
Austria; Bavaria in Southern Germany; and at the 20th Century Fox Studios in
California. It was photographed in 70mm Todd-AO format by Ted D. McCord. It won
a total of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and displaced Gone with
the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all-time. The cast album was also
nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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