Cherish the moment with Mom with these films on Mother’s Day

旧金山编剧和制片人布拉德·亨尼格(Brad Hennig)撰写的《舞台母亲》中的杰基·韦弗(Jacki Weaver)和阿德里安·格里尼尔(Adrian Grenier)明星。Photo: Momentum Pictures

母亲节落在5月8日(星期日),数以百万计的人试图通过给他们的妈妈们提供礼物,在豪华餐厅预订餐点,以展示他们的妈妈爱。但是,为什么不与电影马拉松一起度过特别的周日,以一些最好的妈妈为中心,以欣赏银幕呢?

The Chronicle’s list includes some well-known flicks, focusing just on the mother characters, as well as some more obscure films:

Celebrate Mother’s Day weekend 2022 with fun offerings around the Bay Area

“几乎著名:无题 - 盗版”(2001年)

“几乎著名”是导演卡梅隆·克劳(Cameron Crowe)的半自传式电影,讲述了一位十几岁的作家威廉·米勒(William Miller)(帕特里克·菲吉特(Patrick Fugit)),他经历了一生的冒险,因为记者涵盖了新兴摇滚乐队的突破之旅。当这部电影是为家庭市场上映时,Crowe发布了被称为“无标题”的版本,其中包含大约40分钟的额外场景,现在被视为电影的权威版本。如此之大的原因之一是,威廉的母亲伊莱恩(Elaine)在弗朗西斯·麦克多曼(Frances McDormand)的奥斯卡奖提名表演中扮演,获得了更多的放映时间和角色发展。

即使在他做梦的演出之后,她也鼓励儿子找到自己的道路,当时她显然担心摇滚乐的生活方式的危险。McDormand在与乐队的吉他手(Billy Crudup)的一场著名的电话对抗中偷走了这场演出,她在鼓励儿子的纯真的同时,鼓励老将道路猪变得更好,使他成为一个笨拙,谦卑的消息。

他说:“你妈妈有点吓到我了。”“她的意思很好,”威廉用舒适的肩膀上的轻拍回答。

Watch it:租用或购买Amazon Prime视频

‘Stage Mother’ (2020)

A bittersweet comedy released in the early days of the pandemic and written by San Francisco’s Brad Hennig, “Stage Mother” is a tale of growth and redemption. Jacki Weaver (“Silver Linings Playbook”) plays Maybelline Metcalf, a conservative Christian housewife and choir director who learns that her drag queen son has passed away. They were estranged at the time due to her husband’s homophobia, and she always mourned having lost contact with her son.

美宝莲发现,由于她的儿子从未与他的男友(阿德里安·格里尼尔)结婚,因此她现在拥有他的旧金山拖车俱乐部作为近亲。决心要弥补她在儿子一生中失去生命的时间,Maybelline伪造了一个新的身份,成为一个拖拉俱乐部的新身份,并为他留下的朋友的悲伤圈子而成为了母亲。“舞台母亲”几乎是一个完美的幻想,父母最终修补了他们的方式来拥抱孩子的真实自我。韦弗(Weaver)是一个安静的力量,他发现自己的位置站在儿子朋友的生活中,以及丈夫自己的无罪偏见。拯救儿子的力量可能为时已晚,这部电影跳过表明她犹豫不决地接受所有人的成本,但这仍然对进步有所希望。

Watch it:可在Starz上流式传输。租用或购买Amazon Prime视频

‘A Christmas Story’ (1983)

围绕“圣诞节故事”的假日行李太多,以至于经典电影中最好的部分之一是丢失的:梅琳达·狄龙(Melinda Dillon)饰演帕克(Mother Parker)。尽管通常在儿子寻求购买BB枪的过程中是一个小小的对手,但狄龙上交的实际表现是表演的大师班。Every scene she is in — from washing Ralphie’s (Peter Billingsley) mouth out with soap and then realizing how cruel it was to the way she comforts him after a fight — displays a quiet strength and range of emotion in a movie generally filled with one-dimensional cartoon characters.

In a lesser actor’s hands, Mother Parker would be forgettable, but Dillon might have actually crafted the best mom performance of all time. That should get more attention than the leg lamp.

Watch it:租用或购买YouTube

‘Voorhees (Born on a Friday)’ (2011)

When it comes to righteously violent mothers, there are some amazing ones to choose from. The Bride from “Kill Bill,” the duel of maternal warriors in “Aliens” and the black sadism of “Serial Mom” are all great contenders. Standing above them all remains Pamela Voorhees, the mother of famed hockey-masked slasher Jason. The role was played with incredible verve by Betsy Palmer in the first “Friday the 13th” movie, and many comics and fan films have tried to expand Pamela’s story over the years.

最好的之一是导演克里斯·诺塔里尔(Chris R. Notarile)的短片,讲述了帕梅拉(Pamela)在营地水晶湖(Camp Crystal Lake)的首次复仇谋杀案。莫妮卡·迪纳塔尔(Monica Dinatale)闪耀着帕梅拉(Pamela),带来甜蜜和恐怖。当她被告知杰森的溺水时,我们遇到了她,打破了她刚刚做的生日蛋糕的哭泣。从那里开始,她屈服于儿子的声音,敦促她杀死湖泊的码头上的紧张对峙。当疏忽和欺凌时,任何感到愤怒的父母都会在帕梅拉的行为中立即感到满足。

Watch it:Available to stream onYouTube

‘The Secret of NIMH’ (1982)

The crowning achievement of Don Bluth’s animation career also contains one of the greatest animated mothers. Mrs. Brisby (Elizabeth Hartman) is a widowed mouse with four children, one of whom is critically ill with pneumonia. To make matters worse, her home in a farmer’s field is about to be plowed under before he will be well enough to move. Desperate, she enlists the help of the Rats of NIMH, a society of super-intelligent rodents that her late husband used to work with.

布里斯比夫人是终极行动的妈妈,在一系列冒险中勇敢地猫头鹰,猫和人类,旨在拯救她的儿子。尽管她显然比在NIMH实验中幸存下来的老鼠和老鼠更不太聪明和技术先进,但她在勇气和心脏方面表现出色。在充满邪恶的继母和已故父母的媒介中,布里斯比夫人是一个妈妈以英雄为中心的室友的罕见例子。

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Correction:这个故事的较早版本错误地说明了弗朗西斯·麦克多曼(Frances McDormand)的奥斯卡“几乎是著名”的结果。

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