[] All About My Mother [] Manuela is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son. But when tragedy strikes and her son is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles. In Spanish with subtitles. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Almost Famous [] It's the opportunity of a lifetime when teenage reporter William Miller lands an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine. Despite the objections of his protective mother, William hits the road with an up-and-coming rock band and finds there's a lot more to write home about than the music. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Anywhere But Here [] Adele is a flashy, flirtatious dreamer. Her daughter Ann is a quiet, no-nonsense realist. On the surface, they're like oil and water, but deep down, they are two of a kind. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Auntie Mame [] In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt--a lady who throws a party for any occasion or non-occasion that comes to mind. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Baby Boom [] An over-achieving businesswoman's life is changed by the arrival of a twenty-two pound bundle named Elizabeth. She tries to juggle a high-pressure career and instant motherhood in this fast-paced comedy about a woman who discovers what's really important in life. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Blind Side, The [] Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Changeling [] Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate a search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge the Los Angeles police force at every turn. The police slander Christine and paint her as an unfit mother. Christine challenges the system and the only person willing to aid her in her search is benevolent local activist Reverend Briegleb. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Chocolat [] When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood [] Like mother, like daughter. Neither a hard-as-nails New York playwright nor her flaky Louisiana mother will take the necessary steps to mend their long-time rift. No, this is a job for the Sisterhood, sworn life-long friends who stage an outlandish "intervention" to bring daughter and mother back together again. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Erin Brockovich [] Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Forrest Gump [] The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Forrest comes to embody a generation. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Freaky Friday [] A mother and her daughter are always fighting and screaming at each other. Each thinks that the other has it so easy. Then, thanks to a magical fortune cookie, they switch personalities and bodies and discover each other's problems and complications. And they end up gaining a little respect for each other's point of view. But they need to be changed back by Saturday, because the mother is getting married! [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Hairspray [] In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corney Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she believes in. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Hairspray [] Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Hope Floats [] Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] I Remember Mama [] Portrays the struggles of a Norwegian immigrant family at the turn of the century in San Francisco. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Imitation of Life [] The story of two women trying to find success, but end up finding that success isn't everything. Includes both the 1934 and 1959 releases. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Incredibles, The [] Bob and his wife Helen used to be among the world's greatest crime fighters, saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. Fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they live "normal" lives with their three kids, Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Madea's Family Reunion [] In addition to being saddled with an unruly foster teen, Madea has two troubled nieces to deal with. Lisa is engaged to an abusive and controlling investment banker and Vanessa is finding it difficult to open herself to the affection of a bus driver/artist Frankie because of childhood abuse. Wreaking havoc on both of the girls's lives is their mother Victoria. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Mask [] The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but Rusty fights for her son's rights. Rocky eventually falls in love with Diana, a blind girl who cannot see his deformity and is entranced by the boy's kindness and compassion. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Mermaids [] Mrs. Flax is a free-spirited and unconventional woman. She's exasperating to her daughters, Charlotte, age 15, and Kate age 9. Mrs. Flax meets Lou Landsky who tries to turn the trio into a family. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Mother [] After two failed marriages, a science fiction writer decides coming to terms with his mom will improve his chances for a successfull relationship, so he moves in with his mom. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Mrs. MiniverM [] The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personafies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while she is preparing for her annual flower show despite the exigencies of bombing raids. Even the vicars climactic call to arms from the pulpit of his ruined church seems to bring out the best in people.f [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] My Big Fat Greek Wedding [] Toula is a quiet, devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working in her father's restaurant, she hides behind her family and keeps the world at a distance. One day at the restaurant she finds herself pouring coffee for a man who inspires her to change her life, and the way she sees the world ... forever. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Not Without My Daughter [] American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Please Don't Eat the Daisies [] When one of New York's top drama critics pans a good friend's show and its leading lady's performance, war is declared by both. The reviewer, his wife, four bratty kids, and their English sheepdog move to the country, but it does not solve the reviewer's problems. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Postcards From the Edge [] Based on the novel by Carrie Fisher about her life in the Hollywood fast lane. Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Riding in Cars With Boys [] Based on a true story. A single mother, with dreams of going to college and becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 and goes through a failed marriage with the her son's drug-addicted father. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Sound of Music, The [] As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Steel Magnolias [] A young diabetic's decision to have a baby may cost her life. This choice leaves her own mother torn between love and anger, while her loyal friends support her and try to deal with their own feelings. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Stella [] After a brief relationship with a young doctor, Stella, a tough and fiercely independent woman, discovers she's pregnant. Too proud to accept the doctor's marriage proposal, Stella raises her daughter Jenny alone, and through the years the two share a very special relationship until Stella realizes she cannot provide Jenny with the advantages her wealthy father can. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Stepmom [] Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father's life: Isabel, a successful photographer. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad, but also loves her work and does not plan to give it up. But Jackie, a full-time-mother, regards Isabel's efforts as offensively insufficient. She can't understand that work can be important to her as well as the kids. The conflict between them is deepened by the sudden diagnose of cancer, which might may be deadly for Jackie. They all have to learn a little in order to grow together. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Terms of Endearment [] A comedy-drama about the evolving 30+ year relationship between a mother and daughter. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ---------------------------------------- [] Tumbleweeds [] After her latest failed relationship, free-spirited, four-times married Mary Jo Walker hits the road and heads West with her 12-year old daughter Ava in search of greener pastures. [This film is in the following lists:] Memorable Movie Moms ----------------------------------------