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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 7:58 pm
Hi, I’m looking for recommendations of movies or shows with a very warm, loving mother figure. I don’t have this in my life and I’m craving just to see it.
If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it. Thanks.
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daagahminayin
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 8:32 pm
Warm and Basically Unproblematic Mothers (It was strangely hard for me to think of many of these):
- Harry Potter (Mrs Weasley)
- Prime
Mothers who are very loving but not outwardly warm:
- Woman Talking (Claire Foy’s character)
- Almost Famous
Loving Mother Figures not necessarily mothers:
- The Sound of Music
- The Help
- Anastasia
Tearjerkers (mothers who are warm and loving but not guaranteed to stay living):
- Stepmom
- One True Thing
- This is Us (Rebecca, TV series not a movie)
Movies that won’t give you the mother figure you crave but deal with the mother wound craving so might be cathartic (or triggering, you be the judge):
- AI
- The Phantom Thread
- Toast
(You didn’t ask for this but) Songs:
Ablaze - Alanis Morissette
This is to Mother You - Sinéad O'Connor
Edited to Add:
Redemptive Mother-Daughter Arc Movie (mother doesn’t start off warm and loving but becomes that way)
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
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Ghostwhite
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 8:38 pm
I found this a fascinating but difficult to answer question!
The Blind Side
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daagahminayin
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 8:49 pm
amother Ghostwhite wrote: | I found this a fascinating but difficult to answer question!
The Blind Side |
Me too. My theory for this is that the parent-child relationship and perhaps particularly the mother bond is at the heart of all stable human connection.
However, movies need instability in order for there to be a story and resolution. So that’s why there are so few movies with strong and loving mother-child relationships where the bond stays in tact and neither party dies.
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Amethyst
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 8:51 pm
Random, but I always loved the mother in Little House on the Prairie series!
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Aster
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 8:55 pm
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Seashell
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 8:56 pm
I was thinking Mrs. Doubtfire lol
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sara_s
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 9:04 pm
Ate you there God, it's me Margaret by Jude Blume has a very loving mother.
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Ballota
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 9:12 pm
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 9:15 pm
I think the sound of music is perfect. She’s not the mother but becomes their step mother. And the way she cares for them is really special.
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Hyssop
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 9:26 pm
Only watch AI if you feel like losing ur will to live, most depressing movie I have ever seen
Otherwise great list daagahminayin
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 9:31 pm
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Salmon
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 9:33 pm
daagahminayin wrote: |
- This is Us (Rebecca, TV series not a movie)
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Rebecca isn't completely unproblematic. Remember when she slaps Kate in the face? Plus how she deals with her weight as a child (and even as an adult... the comments...)
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 9:37 pm
amother Salmon wrote: | Rebecca isn't completely unproblematic. Remember when she slaps Kate in the face? Plus how she deals with her weight as a child (and even as an adult... the comments...) |
No, I didn’t remember that. But she wasn’t in my unproblematic list! (Hiding an important fact from one of her children was also very problematic - I’m being vague to avoid spoilers).
The thing is that show was all about painful family problems and their meaningful, tear-inducing resolutions.
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 9:40 pm
amother Hyssop wrote: | Only watch AI if you feel like losing ur will to live, most depressing movie I have ever seen
Otherwise great list daagahminayin |
Thank you. I quite liked that movie… found it moving.
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 10:06 pm
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Mon, Jul 08 2024, 10:16 pm
This Is US- plenty of seasons to keep you busy. It's the best tear jerker TV show.
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bookstore15
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Mon, Jul 15 2024, 9:58 am
Yeah, little women
Also JoJo rabbit, but warning- very sad. WW2
Boyhood
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logical
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Mon, Jul 15 2024, 12:13 pm
I got warm mother vibes from freaky friday
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