Best / Worst Movie Mom Characters

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[CateNicole Joined: Jun 20th, 2018 Topics: 0 Posts: 1730 View Predictions]

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I like this idea. I will say that it’s important to acknowledge the systematic racism in America that made it harder for Mary Jones to be a mother.

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[karls Joined: Oct 8th, 2011 Topics: 2 Posts: 166 View Predictions]

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Favorite: Rachel Flax (“Mrs. Flax”) played by Cher in Mermaids(1990) I think She’s cool as a mom

Least favorite: Mrs. Lisbon played by Kathleen Turner in The Virgin Suicides (1999)

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[Awardsfan1990 Joined: Mar 28th, 2015 Topics: 237 Posts: 8851 View Predictions]

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Halley in The Florida Project is among my all-time worst movie moms. While she doesn’t physically or emotionally abuse her daughter Moonee, she’s definitely NOT a good mother. She treats her daughter more like a little sister/best friend than a daughter, and when any parent does that, a child is inevitably headed for trouble (Lindsay Lohan is a perfect example of this).

Plus, she makes her daughter her partner in all her con jobs begging for money, and let’s not forget, she prostitutes herself, having sex with strange men while her daughter’s in the bathroom taking a bath. When Child Protective Services comes to take Moonee away at the end of the movie, I thought, “Thank God.”

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Awardsfan1990 wrote:

Halley in The Florida Project is among my all-time worst movie moms. While she doesn’t physically or emotionally abuse her daughter Moonee, she’s definitely NOT a good mother. She treats her daughter more like a little sister/best friend than a daughter, and when any parent does that, a child is inevitably headed for trouble (Lindsay Lohan is a perfect example of this).

Plus, she makes her daughter her partner in all her con jobs begging for money, and let’s not forget, she prostitutes herself, having sex with strange men while her daughter’s in the bathroom taking a bath. When Child Protective Services comes to take Moonee away at the end of the movie, I thought, “Thank God.”

Ajá and The favorite movie mom?…

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[Awardsfan1990 Joined: Mar 28th, 2015 Topics: 237 Posts: 8851 View Predictions]

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Favorite movie mom? That’s hard to say…I’ll really have to think about it. I do think one of the more underrated movie moms out there is Mrs. Bucket from Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. I love how she reassures Charlie she’ll always love him even if he never finds a Golden Ticket. “Cheer Up, Charlie” is probably the most underrated song from that movie.

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 257 Posts: 16485 View Predictions]

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Worst Mom : LaVona Harding in I, Tonya (let’s not even go there)
Best Mom : Marion McPherson in Lady Bird. There were moments in the film where her character was flawed but at the end of the day she wanted all that was best for her working class family and her for her daughter. In fact the McPherson family seemed to be matriarchal.

FYC OSCARS : PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN IN ALL CATEGORIES (ESP. ACTRESS – Carey Mulligan AND ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY — EMERALD FENNELL), VANESSA KIRBY FOR "PIECES OF A WOMAN", ESSIE DAVIS FOR "BABYTEETH"

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[OneAndOnly Joined: Mar 21st, 2017 Topics: 18 Posts: 2017 View Predictions]

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Best: Allison Janney as Charlotte Phelan in The Help.

Have a great day if you see this!

FYC: Anthony Hopkins- The Father
FYC: Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Male/Straight/BLM

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[Dan Jo]

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Margo Martindale in Million Dollar Baby and August: Osage County
Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People
Gladys Cooper in Now, Voyager and Separate Tables
Meryl Streep in August: Osage County
Piper Laurie in Carrie

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[Dan Backslide Joined: Apr 24th, 2016 Topics: 63 Posts: 5634 View Predictions]

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While I don’t agree with this stance, I’ve heard a humorously compelling argument for Catherine O’Hara in Home Alone being cinema’s worst mother on the basis that she accidentally abandoned her son not once, but twice.

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[Leo Grant Logan Joined: Nov 7th, 2010 Topics: 73 Posts: 1931 View Predictions]

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Worst: Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest

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One of the worst.

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[JayDF Joined: Sep 18th, 2011 Topics: 36 Posts: 19354 View Predictions]

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teleflick wrote:

Worst: Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest

As I was scrolling I was waiting for someone to type “Mommie Dearest”! Ha.

I gonna go middle of the road and mention 2 performances that have good mama moments and bad. Both played by Shirley MacLaine. “Postcards From the Edge” is my all time favorite work by her. Also, I can’t go without mentioning “Terms of Endearment”. Terms was my own mama’s favorite film ever… she always talked about the give my daughter her shot explosion. I was a sickly child and she had a few moments like that herself. Happy mother’s day everyone!

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[babypook Joined: Nov 4th, 2010 Topics: 143 Posts: 17022 View Predictions]

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Meryl Streep. Sophie’s Choice
A Cry in The Dark

Worst moms? On mother’s day?

Stumped.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K Dick Blade Runner

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[Dan Backslide Joined: Apr 24th, 2016 Topics: 63 Posts: 5634 View Predictions]

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While we never see her onscreen with her biological daughter, Ellen Ripley in Aliens still deserves a shoutout for her relationship with Newt, quickly making a maternal bond with the orphan and doing everything she can to protect her and becoming her guardian in all but name.

As for worst mothers, Margaret White is hard to beat. A hypocritical, misogynistic, mentally ill woman who locks her daughter in a “prayer closet” for absurd reasons such as having her period. And that’s not even going into what she does near the end of the movie.

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