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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.
1933, London, England, UK
28 November 1952, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
24 January 1979, North Bellmore, Long Island, New York, USA
9 July 1955, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
31 January 1977, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
19 August 1973, New York City, New York, USA
11 October 1953, Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
18 April 1990, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
21 October 1949, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
15 October 1927, New York City, New York, USA
25 March 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 November 1956, Paris, Tennessee, USA
21 December 1948, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
18 October 1978, Bronx, New York, USA
5 March 1946, South Bend, Indiana, USA
23 September 1959, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
11 January 1972, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
10 July 1939, Cynthiana, Kentucky, USA
16 August 1961, Paracuaro, Michoacan, Mexico
17 November 1971, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.January 06, 2012
Annette Bening gives one of her most enigmatic and painfully frank performances yet that cuts direct to the core.January 06, 2012
Bening, consistently one of the best US screen actresses, is really the main reason to keep you watching.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.June 04, 2010
If Garcia's film never quite catches up with his ambitions for it, well, at least he's trying.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.June 03, 2010
A thoughtful and provocative film about the way we live now.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.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.June 04, 2010
Obviously, this is emotionally rich ground and Garcia plows it perhaps a bit too heavily.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 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.