Otherhood (2019)

The story's a pretty simple one. Three moms (played by Angela Bassett, Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette) with disfunctional lives who have been lifelong friends feel ignored on Mother's Day when none of their grown sons who have equally disfunctional lives (played by Sinqua Walls, Jake Lacy and Jake Hoffman) call them. So they jump in a car and travel to New York City unannounced to visit their respective boys - who are none to happy with the surprise. That's the story.

The performances from the cast were fine. I had no complaints there. But the story is weak. It really doesn't have much of a point to it, to be honest. It's described as a comedy, but to be perfectly honest I found the movie rather dark - and not as in a dark comedy. Just dark and largely humourless to be honest. Even a dark comedy has to have some wry, sardonic humour to qualify it as a comedy. This really didn't. It wasn't a pleasant movie and I really didn't feel much sympathy for any of the characters. The story really doesn't have that much of a point to it except showing us the various disfunctional relationships, but - of course - implausibly it all leads up to the required happy ending as everything works out perfectly for everyone.

It's not a horrible movie. It's just very mediocre. The good performances from the cast get it a 4/10 from me.

Fmovies: Three Mother's meet every Mother's day, since their children left home, to celebrate. Only this Mother's day they decide, after little acknowledgement from their children on Mother's day, to pay a surprise visit to their children. This film is a journey of how they rekindle their relationships and the light-hearted conflicts between each Mother and child. The differences between each character shines through each actor as the script allowed for these differences, and never felt as though all the actors were reading from one script. This was an easy film for me to watch, halfway through wishing more mischievous behaviour from the Mothers, and with a happy ending.

The film never got interesting but I kept waiting. Not only was it silly but slow and predictable as well.

Otherhood fmovies. Sometimes the characters have reasonable motivations and valid points - but most of the time all the characters are just unlikeable. Solid acting from the three leads makes the first act enjoyable but after that it's hard to care for any character

This movie is boring, and pointless. It's basically like a lifetime movie I would instantly change the channel on. I couldn't crack one smile with this one. I really tried though.i can't say there was anything I liked sadly.

Not funny. Not engaging. But very predictable. The characters are klichées and instead of being moved I just got annoyed. Sorry, but I really didn't find it good or interesting.