Mom's Day Away (2014)

The Worst Film Ever

Highly Overrated But Still Good

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Why bother doing a review for Hallmark pap? A lone voice saying THIS ISN'T A HAPPY ENDING! The kids were behaving the way they were raised; the husband treated her the way the she allowed. No one changes overnight. Kids don't suddenly become responsible, likable human beings. Husbands don't suddenly become eternally appreciative. Women don't suddenly become assertive and take charge. A woman is totally supportive of her college buddy who's never had a job horning in with her clients? Sure. But what really did it for me was the kids eating the bake sale cake. It wasn't cute and funny - it was hostile and ill bred.

I'm not usually partial to Hallmark MOWs, but I rather enjoyed Mom's Day Away. It had the pace, cast, quirky banter and heartfelt moments that you look for in a G-rated Rom Com.The story follows an under appreciated Mom who ends up taking Mother's Day weekend away with her wild child BFF. It follows a very traditional route, but there's some fun scenes at a Spa Resort. Also there's a very kooky open mic set piece.Is Bonnie Somerville actually singing??? And also, I believe she said "yay", not "gay". Remember... It's Hallmark...The chemistry between the two girls, Laura and Trish, really kept the movie going. Laura and Trish were actually the only characters I liked. The husband was kind of a drip, and the two kids were boring to watch. Terrible casting on the kids. Redhead, really? Regardless, it was a fun little movie and well shot. It's supposed to be in Los Angeles, but it looked like Canada to me.Overall, I'd definitely recommend watching MDA. It's a Hallmark movie with a great cast, a fun script and a perfect way to spend a week night.

The story was typical of what you expect to see on the Hallmark Channel. The issues I had were the condescension and the total disrespect of other characters. The mother while watching a karaoke act made vicious rude comments about a singer and then gets up and does almost as poorly.They flash back to the 1990's and use phobic terminology of those days with things like "you're so gay." Following a derogatory statement about the main character.The woman goes out and gets a make-over which makes her look like a street walker and then puts other people down. This could have been good but the writing was awful and the self esteem issues were a put down to any mother. Very disappointed in Hallmark on this one.The act not bad. The plot was decent. The dialogue was belittling.

It's Mother's Day Weekend and life is just as swamped as ever with her routine. So Bonnie Somerville wakes up, walks out for the weekend with her old friend Ona Grauer and leaves Dad to make a hash of dealing with the kids in this blandly written but well performed Hallmark TV movie.Most of the jokes in this one are about the level of 1970s television situation comedies in which the perfectly nice kids drive work-befuddled dad up the wall -- think "Brady Bunch". As such it would make yet another of the interminable series of rote Hallmark movies celebrating some holiday or other. Miss Somerville, however, takes the same sort of rote lines and situations that appear in every other movie and converts them into a funny, neurotic character.There's still that annoying music score that tells you before anything happens what this particular scene is going to be about and how you should feel about it. It's clearly not the fault of the composer, but someone needs to have a stern word with the musical director. Valerie Biggins, I'm talking to you!