Mother and Child
The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen who always regrets giving her daughter, Elizabeth, up for adoption; adopted Elizabeth whose personal life lacks warmth and Lucy who eventually deciding that adoption is the best bet to start a family with her husband.
17 November 1971, Detroit, Michigan, USA
23 September 1959, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
22 June 1964, New London, Connecticut, USA
28 September 1968, Shoreham, Kent, England, UK
11 January 1972, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
1933, London, England, UK
18 April 1990, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
28 November 1952, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
21 October 1949, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
21 November 1956, Paris, Tennessee, USA
25 March 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 August 1973, New York City, New York, USA
10 July 1939, Cynthiana, Kentucky, USA
11 July 1989, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
16 March 1943, Los Angeles County, California, USA
5 March 1946, South Bend, Indiana, USA
29 May 1958, Topeka, Kansas, USA
31 January 1977, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
18 October 1978, Bronx, New York, USA
9 July 1955, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
January 07, 2012
It's a highly contrived affair with a barely concealed, deeply conservative Catholic agenda, and it has the ring of a cracked bell calling the righteous to prayer.
July 07, 2010
Mother and Child is a compassionate, multi-threaded tale about the lives of everyday women -- though this time, they are more explicitly defined by the primal bond of the title.
June 02, 2010
[Garcia] lets the picture start to go soft in the middle, and teary melodrama floods in like water from a broken dam.
January 07, 2012
Mother and Child reminds us how important the notion of lineage - of finding a discernible path through life that doesn't just begin and end with ourselves - is to our personal identity, and the decisions we make in life.
April 08, 2012
For the first time in a very long while, Bening disappears into a character and turns in a performance that isn't about her shamelessly playing to the rafters to grab after Oscar.
January 04, 2012
What keeps the whole thing from toppling into an abyss of unwatchable TV drama histrionics is a pair of dynamite performances from Annette Bening and Naomi Watts.
June 04, 2010
Obviously, this is emotionally rich ground and Garcia plows it perhaps a bit too heavily.
January 09, 2012
Bening and Watts are good enough to see it through, and it's good to see Jackson actually play his age for once.
January 06, 2012
Bening, consistently one of the best US screen actresses, is really the main reason to keep you watching.
June 03, 2010
A thoughtful and provocative film about the way we live now.
January 06, 2012
Annette Bening gives one of her most enigmatic and painfully frank performances yet that cuts direct to the core.
June 04, 2010
If Garcia's film never quite catches up with his ambitions for it, well, at least he's trying.
