What if you hosted a movie night in your living room to celebrate Mother’s Day?
Mamma Mia!
Cheerful, colorful and lively, the Mamma Mia! The year 2008 is the perfect sunshine. Meryl Streep plays a mother whose daughter, played by Amanda Seyfried, has to get married. But now the mother in question doesn’t know who the father is and is hesitating between Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard (not the worst choice, let’s face it!). This sparkling comedy for the whole family is set to music with the energetic songs of the band ABBA… which also guarantee a karaoke afternoon or evening that will put you in a good mood.
- Available on Illico, Prime Video, Crave, AppleTV+, YouTube
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Lion
It’s impossible not to get a lump in your throat watching this 2016 feature film based on a true story and based on the protagonist’s 2015 autobiography. Saroo Brierley (Dev Patel), adopted by Sue (Nicole Kidman; perfect) and John (David Wenham), an Australian couple, then decides to search for his birth family. By digging through his childhood memories, he manages to reconstruct certain elements of his journey, and then he goes in search of his home village via Google Earth. Nominated in six Oscar categories, the BAFTA winner for Best Picture is a hauntingly beautiful drama that brings viewers of all ages together.
- Available on Prime Video, AppleTV+, YouTube
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A single family
The Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning 2010 film One Family stars Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), the couple who have two children, Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson). conceived by artificial insemination. Laser, who is too young to officially request information about the sperm donor, asks his sister to start the process. The two young people learn that their father’s name is Paul (Mark Ruffalo) and that he owns an organic restaurant. Directed with incredible intelligence by Lisa Cholodenko (Netflix’s excellent Incredible TV series), this film is a little gem we never tire of watching.
- Available on Prime Video, AppleTV+, Crave, YouTube
PHOTO COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES
red alert
An animated film had to be included in this list of suggestions, and here it is! Ideal for mothers of young children, this feature film from Domee Shi (Oscar winner for her outstanding short film Bao, available on Disney+) follows Mei (voice of Rosalie Chiang in the Original Version) who transforms into a giant red-headed panda when she feels an intense emotion. The 13-year-old teenager’s first instinct is to hide this condition from her mother, who is a bit overprotective (voice of Sandra Oh), but she eventually notices and tells her daughter the family story. Extremely well thought out, Red Alert (2022) is Pixar’s first feature film set in a Canadian city – in this case Toronto – and directed by a woman. Billie Eilish also composed a song for the film.
- Available on Disney+, YouTube
Photo courtesy Disney/Pixar
unworthy mothers
In 2016, co-writers and directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore decide to present moms in all their irreverent… and hilarious normality. So we meet Amy (Mila Kunis), a married perfectionist and mother of two who throws out her husband when she catches him cheating on her. Completely stressed and at the end of her tether, she decides to curb her enthusiasm. And when she meets Carla (Kathryn Hahn) and Kiki (Kristen Bell), she’s determined to fight that perfect mother syndrome.
- Available on Netflix, AppleTV+, GooglePlay
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