Mother’s Day is coming up this Sunday, May 8th. In addition to spoiling mom with our Mother’s Day Guide, we thought we’d also give you a few movie suggestions to get in the mom-worshipping spirit. Sit down with your mom’s favorite movie snack and celebrate your mom’s amazingness while paying homage to your favorite cinematic moms as well!
1. Freaky Friday
Such a classic. Why doesn’t Lindsay Lohan still sing?! That’s beside the point. Envisioning life if you and your mom switched bodies may be comical, but this movie also provides more serious points of reflection to think about how, at the end of the day, you and your mom are always there for one another, even if being there for one another means your mom is super involved in you scoring Chad Michael Murray!
2. The Kids Are All Right
The more moms, the merrier! In this 2010 film, Julianne Moore and Annette Bening are mothers to Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska. Both children were born via artificial insemination, and things get interesting when Mark Ruffalo, their biological father, is thrown into their lives for the first time.
3. Mean Girls
Maybe we’re recommending this just for the Amy Poehler highlights. This one will give you the opportunity to laugh with your mom about the moments her well-intentioned parenting might have come off the wrong way!
4. Baby Mama
Here’s another Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hit. Tina plays the part of a single woman taking up what seems like her only remaining opportunity to become a mother—Amy’s own fertility. The unlikely friendship the two develop is not only a great take on modern female motherhood, but also offers some original points of view on what it is actually like to become and, eventually, to actually be a mother.
5. Stepmom
This one will have you and your mom crying tears of sadness, joy and laughter. Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts star alongside one another, and create a chemistry that perfectly captures the essence of motherhood, struggles and triumphs combined. Sarandon’s ex-husband becomes Roberts’s girlfriend, and the two must navigate raising Sarandon’s children together.
6. Ice Princess
This is the classic tale of a parent who wants their child to live out their own dream. Michelle Trachtenberg and her on-screen mother, Joan Cusack, butt heads when Trachtenberg discovers a newfound passion for ice skating, just before she is set to start college at Harvard. This one has lessons for both mothers and daughters.
7. We Need to Talk About Kevin
If you and your mom are looking for something on the darker side this Mother’s Day, this one’s for you. This tells the story about the relationship between a mother and her sinister son, and her constant attempts to build a bond with him and his determination to cause chaos. Ezra Miller plays the twisted son of Tilda Swinton.
After the end of a long day of mother-daughter bonding, any of these films will tie a nice bow on the day spent appreciating your mom. Pile in on the couch together with pillows, popcorn and some matching pajamas—what could be better?