My child’s like a little baby Nazi.’ And then she grabs your hand. She’s attracted to these sorts of project for a very simple reason. “I really think it’s a movie for everybody”. To make a movie which appeals and identifies with female audiences, the women don’t need to be flawless or faultless (they shouldn’t be); they need to be identifiable.
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Said Allison Roditi, 37, a Port Washington single mom of two boys ages 5 and 7: “I think of everyone in the theater, something in that movie happened to one of us at some point”. All we want is for Kunis to lock her up, or at least dethrone Gwendolyn at the upcoming PTA election. While the list of people who worked hard on making this film scrolled by, I was treated to each of the principal actresses and their mothers sitting on a couch telling stories about how hard it is to be a mom. The actresses help elevate these characters above the stereotypes – especially Bell, who brings a lot of empathy and humor to what could have easily been a train wreck of a part.
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“It was considered a disappointment opening weekend”. Our wedding bands for when we got married, I made a decision to just get them off Etsy.
“I’m still working on not saying “fuck” in front of her. She’s been known to repeat it here and there, even to her preschool teachers”.
“I don’t know that it’s gotten any better”, Todd says candidly.
“So, I went on Etsy and it was like $90 and I was like ‘buy now,”‘ she laughs. He can’t even just be an oblivious father who doesn’t notice the extra work his wife takes on. He’s like, ‘I’m going to build the baby gates’. It was a complete and utter flop.
Aside from being a film about acceptance (mums are not ideal and it’s okay), Bad Moms also celebrates friendship and sisterhood.
“We turned the table on the traditional sitcom”.
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“So I was like posting things on social media that we were in different locations to avoid [people and noise], we didn’t want to be screaming our vows at each other”. Their separation was as if you would separate water from oil, and one does wonder how were they together in the first place. The sight gags are amusing enough, the writing though is pretty much pedestrian and the exaggerations are obviously not intended to be mean or hurtful to either sex. It’s a movie about a killer snake. The film’s tone and subject matter-a comedy about navigating motherhood’s all-too-real difficulties-is in part what lured Mila Kunis, Christina Applegate, Kathryn Hahn, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Annie Mumolo-all mothers themselves-to the project. (My son never asked me to do that again.) Or, coming home with 20 bags of groceries in your hand after a long day’s work only to hear your husband chuckle, “You look like a sherpa!”
