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Poor Stay at Home Mommy Forced to Be with Her Children

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (48)



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If you’re going to make a movie about a Mom blogger, the least you could do is base it on Dooce, that way Heather Armstrong gets a few schickels, and you start off with a fairly substantial built-in audience. And if the movie captures the spirit of the blog, it could actually succeed.

No such luck, it seems, with Katherine Dieckmann’s Motherhood, at least based on the trailer. It looks like yet another generic blogger movie that fails to really capture the life of the average blogger, which is probably for the best. The average blogger doesn’t look like Uma Thurman. It’d also be difficult to extract anything compelling out of a blogger’s life — it’s a lot of sitting in front of the computer, drinking coffee, and cursing at readers. Although, as father who works from home, I can tell you that Motherhood will fail in the authenticity department unless one of her kids repeatedly slams her laptop closed while she’s trying to write and yells, “All done! Mommy’s all done!”

She is now that you’ve crushed her fingers for the third time today.

Anyway, Motherhood is about the woe-is-me stay-at-home mother who is forced to raise her children in Manhattan with only the help of her loving husband. You poor, downtrodden lady. But don’t worry — the former fiction writer still has an outlet: Her blog, where she can prattle on about the difficulties of being forced to be with her children all day in the greatest city in the world. I’m not saying that stay-at-home parent isn’t one of the hardest goddamn jobs in the world, I’m just saying that the effort is worth the reward. And I have very little tolerance for complainers in that situation.

Plus: If I ever bitched about having to work from home and take care of my kid part time, Mrs. Pajiba-hyphenate would slap the ever-loving shit out of me, even if she is a domestic violence lawyer.









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Comments

Axl calls you Mommy? That's ... apt.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at August 12, 2009 11:38 AM

I eagerly await the end of the "woe-is-me--even-though-i-have-the-perfect-fucking-life" trend in movies. It's why I hate so many movies from the 90's.
Get.the.fuck.over.yourselves. You are just as special and unique as everyone else. No one OWES YOU ANYTHING, including a fulfilling life. SHUT up. please.

Posted by: Stella at August 12, 2009 11:39 AM

Little-known fact: this is actually the sequel to Kill Bill.

Beatrix Kiddo discovers that "normal" life with B.B. is much more harrowing than her days as an assassin. Just when the carpools and the cooking are about to push Beatrix over the edge, a blind Elle Driver shows up in the middle of the climax's birthday party with bloody vengeance on her mind and her non-sight senses perfectly attuned. All hell breaks loose, and Beatrix finally realizes what is best in life.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at August 12, 2009 11:40 AM

I can't watch this video at work, and I wouldn't if I could. Moving on...

In happier news, I read today that Frank Darabont and Gail Anne Hurd are planning to bring "The Walking Dead" to AMC as a series. As a huge fan of the books I am reacting with a (cautious) "YAY!"

Posted by: TylerDFC at August 12, 2009 11:41 AM

Stella, I think you are reading my mind.

Hate, hate, HATE all the prettyprettypeople in movies playing the average downtrodden poor saps who go out and MAKE THE FUCKING WORLD RUN!! So, you are a yuppie writer/mom who HAS to stay home and raise your child! Oh, woe is YOU!!

Fuck that shit...I am going to write a book about a REAL, working mom.....won't sell a single copy, but GODDAM it, I won't be whining about my cappucino machine, or that little Mikey's designer diapers are being delivered late!

*Wednesdays are wrath and vengeance days*

Posted by: dammitjanet at August 12, 2009 11:47 AM

I thought the header picture was Tina Fey. Is that an insult to Uma or Tina?

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Posted by: lindsay at August 12, 2009 11:55 AM

Dear Spambot:

What's with the G's? Bring back the cow noses.

(^ ^),

Jerce

Posted by: Jerce at August 12, 2009 11:59 AM

Count me in on the "Oooooo, feel sorry for me and my privileged, perfect life" movie haters. Kids are messy, disobedient, loud, time consuming attention hogs. And that's the good ones. If you're not up for that, don't have them.

I guess what they're really going for here is the whole "culture" of motherhood whereby there's an expectation that somehow you'll get a healthy and nutritious meal on the table by 7am, have the kids dressed, combed and waiting for their day by 8am and in that time also manage to get yourself into something presentable with make up done and if you fail to do so you'll be the "bad mommy". But that's not how it comes across, so it's just going to infuriate people. Good work!

Posted by: Genny (actually Rusty now) at August 12, 2009 12:02 PM

@TylerDFC

I just read about that on /Film, such great news!

Posted by: LowSlash at August 12, 2009 12:03 PM

Rowles, you and I share a few things in common. One is I also work from home and I take care of my four year old son while my wife goes out and work. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world the time that I spend with my son teaching him the ways of the world. Now this fucking blogger cunt Thurman is giving bloggers a bad name.

Posted by: Guess Who! at August 12, 2009 12:08 PM

I think Spambot is part Tony the Tiger. It's GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGREAT!

Posted by: Julie at August 12, 2009 12:08 PM

I thought the header picture was Tina Fey. Is that an insult to Uma or Tina?

Why does it have to be an insult?

Posted by: Vermillion at August 12, 2009 12:16 PM

Actually, if they're intent on making movies about blogs, I can't wait for "Pajiba: The Movie".

Recovering lawyer starts blog and has life invaded by the weirdest and most opinionated bunch of people. Changes format of blog and receives death threats. Runs an annual April 1st joke that results in suicide threats. Tries to make some money by running ads and gets cursed out by all.

Casting call for Dustin? Anyone?

Posted by: PaddyDog at August 12, 2009 12:18 PM

Oh, no, not the messy-bun-of-mommy-judgment again! Why must every high-profile SAHM only shamble out of the house in mismatched clothing, messy hair, and glasses? For God's sake, woman - I work a full-time job, am a parent, and manage to get makeup and professional clothing on and style my hair every damn weekday.

As to wrestling the shopping cart up the stairs to your apartment, honey, move to Queens. We in Forest Hills have elevator buildings, in-building laundry, and operating heat/hot water. It's lovely and orderly and has some of the best public grammar schools in the city. You can even have a car. Parenting in NYC need not be high-drama and overwhelming. Warning: it will require interacting with many immigrants and lifelong New Yorkers, most of whom have no patience for such nonsense as complaining about blogging from home whilst caring for Max/Sophie/Jack/Zoe/Emma or whatever your child's name is.

Posted by: samantha t at August 12, 2009 12:31 PM

Paddy I didn’t know Rowles was a lawyer, whom did he work for Dewey, Cheatem & Howell?

By the way Paddy great match, next time try not to hit the fucking ball in the drink.

Posted by: Guess Who! at August 12, 2009 12:32 PM

If this movie was to have any real basis in real life Uma Thurman's character would be played by somebody that looks much like our very own Prisco. That's what the REAL Pajiba/web/blogosphere is like. FACT: 95% of the web is populated by men the other 5% is men posing as women.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at August 12, 2009 12:35 PM

"Oh, no, not the messy-bun-of-mommy-judgment again! Why must every high-profile SAHM only shamble out of the house in mismatched clothing, messy hair, and glasses?"

And she's always, ALWAYS a brunette. Eff you, Hollywood.

Posted by: naivehelga at August 12, 2009 12:41 PM

I hope they don’t look like Prisco, lets just say that the gods were unkind to him. I kid, I kid!

Posted by: Guess Who! at August 12, 2009 12:43 PM

That may have been my favorite Samantha T comment ever.

Posted by: TK at August 12, 2009 12:43 PM

Casting call for Dustin? Anyone?

That part hasn't been promised to Vince Vaughn yet?

Posted by: branded at August 12, 2009 12:52 PM

Vince Vaughn? I was thinking more along the lines of Paulo Costanzo.

Posted by: Guess Who! at August 12, 2009 1:00 PM

People, people, you KNOW Rowles will accept only one actor to play him, his name starts with Ryan and ends with Abs.

Of course, in keeping with old time Hollywood tradition there Rowles will insist on a personal "audition."

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at August 12, 2009 1:00 PM

Casting call for Dustin? Anyone?

That part hasn't been promised to Vince Vaughn yet?


As my poor white, Irish mother would say...Nigga please!!!

Anyone who's met Rowles knows that Michael Pitt is a shoe-in for the rowle. (see what i did there?)

Posted by: PissBoy at August 12, 2009 1:02 PM

TK: Why, thank you. I aim to please.

Posted by: samantha t at August 12, 2009 1:12 PM

Personally.... I would have given ANYTHING to stay home with my daughter, instead of crawling back to work on what felt like the next day after giving birth. Oh yeah, and having a husband, or anyone at home would have helped, too.

And comb your hair for Chrissakes, its not that freakin' difficult.

/rant over

Posted by: nancy at August 12, 2009 1:16 PM

And where do you propose he hold these “Auditions” B, on Fire Island?

Posted by: Guess Who! at August 12, 2009 1:18 PM

Oh, Minnie Driver. Who ever told you you could pull off a leather catsuit?

Posted by: Shay at August 12, 2009 1:31 PM

Guess Who!

That hurt. I have never been more engrossed in a golf match in my life. It will go down as one of the great "if onlys".

Posted by: PaddyDog at August 12, 2009 1:35 PM

samantha t! life-long Queens girl here. And I also refuse to stand for this fuckery. Can we start some kind of club or something?

Posted by: CurlieQt at August 12, 2009 1:59 PM

The average blogger doesn’t look like Uma Thurman.

No, they look like hot Pajibettes.

Posted by: Sofía at August 12, 2009 2:07 PM

If I had to see a movie about a blog, I would choose aag. She rocks and hasn't gotten her head crammed up her own ass the way Dooce occasionally does.

Posted by: myysharona (formerly Sharon) at August 12, 2009 2:24 PM

Also, every time I look at the header picture, I think she's dressed like a Ghostbuster. Except a child has mysteriously replaced the key elements of her proton pack and she's in for nasty surprise next time she tries to zap a ghost.

Posted by: myysharona (formerly Sharon) at August 12, 2009 2:30 PM

Curlieqt - I can claim no such heritage, sadly, but I am happy to be Queens-identified. My husband and I moved from Brooklyn to Queens and realized the hyped-up nonsense we had been putting up with.

Of course, we'll leave Queens for the CT suburbs when the time comes, but I can assure you you'll never hear us bitching about how difficult life in the tree-lined suburbs is!

Posted by: samantha t at August 12, 2009 2:34 PM

Oh what I would give to be a SAHM.

At Henry house we call these movies and all those of their ilk (I'm looking at you Woody Allen): Rich people's probblems.

Posted by: Henry at August 12, 2009 2:48 PM

Posted by: TylerDFC at August 12, 2009 11:41 AM

Tyler, why so cautious? This is the man that brought us The Mist and other wondrous works of fiction. I'd say throw up that YAY! like you mean it, sir!

Also, the only question I have about this movie is does she "find herself"? All these chick flicks usually have a sequence where the heroine "finds herself" and does so usually with a little montage of pop music. C'mon, crank up some Sara Barellies and let Uma strut her stuff as she takes care of her baby and realizes that "yeah...motherhood rocks!"

Fuck our lives...why must Hollywood allow such backwater, halfassed, peckerwood products to flood the market? What happened to huge studios, a couple indie factories, and the occassional DTV disasterbacle? And people wonder why TV is more popular, or books are better?!

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at August 12, 2009 3:02 PM

I am a busy stay at home mom, and I still manage to put on clothes and do my hair every day. If you're fortunate enough to be able to stay at home with your kids, you don't bitch about it.

It can be exhausting, hair-pulling, and thankless; some days it feels like my brain is rotting from lack of adult conversations; some days I want to throw the kid in daycare and go back to work. But most of all, I appreciate the fact that I get to experience every hair-pulling, mind-numbing moment of it.

Making a movie that tries to moan and complain about it? Not so cool in my books.

Posted by: Superfish at August 12, 2009 3:08 PM

And how old is that kid in the backpack - twelve?

Posted by: samantha t at August 12, 2009 3:10 PM

Great. So not only do I have to continue to live in a society that idolizes the Mommy and Daddy Cult, now I have to listen to it bitch and whine about how hard it is? Fuck you Yummy Mummy and the Hollywood gestapo that caters to you. If squeezing puling genetic legacies out of your crybaby uterus is such a hardship then maybe you should have done the world a favour and stayed childless.

The movie I want to see: A Double-Income-No-Kids couple struggles with the concept of having children - facing pressure for family, societal mores and pop culture - and then decides, you know what? We don't want to have children. Bully for those who do, but it's not for us. That doesn't make us criminals or morally deficient, it just makes us happy the way we are. Yay us! THE END.

Posted by: malechai at August 12, 2009 3:13 PM

nancy, I join your rant. When my youngest was born, I had a 7 year old, a 3 year old, was in the middle of a divorce, and interviewed for a job 3 days before going into labor. I got called for the job while in the hospital, and went back to work 2 weeks after giving birth. AND, my kids were bathed, fed, dressed yada yada, and so was I every single day.

Film THAT, bitches.

Posted by: dammitjanet at August 12, 2009 3:43 PM

"The movie I want to see: A Double-Income-No-Kids couple struggles with the concept of having children - facing pressure for family, societal mores and pop culture - and then decides, you know what? We don't want to have children. Bully for those who do, but it's not for us. That doesn't make us criminals or morally deficient, it just makes us happy the way we are. Yay us! THE END."

I would see this movie, provided the couple doesn't present their entirely personal decision based on what works for them logistically as doing something environmentally-heroic and "selfless".

Posted by: samantha t at August 12, 2009 3:58 PM

I'm a SAHM. I shave my legs... get this.... EVERY DAY. I also have been known to actually wear unstained clothes AND make up... together, at the same time..... all the while rearing my children and cooking dinner and possibly even folding laundry.

Shocking, I know.

I fucking HATE that Mommies are sterotypically lumped into a group of flabby, messy unkempt whiners.

Posted by: Janey at August 12, 2009 4:10 PM

samantha t:

Agreed. And no dirty hipsters in our movie either.

Posted by: malechai at August 12, 2009 4:28 PM

well, um...it was pretty funny trying to watch that trailer. Both kids attacked, spraying perfume on me, got two punches in, and proffered a lap full of 'Perfection' pieces. Sigh. Serves me right. :)

Posted by: replica at August 12, 2009 4:29 PM

Malechai - they actually did an okay job of that conundrum, with different results, during the first season of "In Treatment."

Posted by: samantha t at August 12, 2009 5:14 PM

Extremely excited to watch the movie...just seen the trailer here clipta.com

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Posted by: k.lucy61 at August 13, 2009 4:32 AM

Oh great, a movie about a blog. A MOMMY blog, at that. I can see the dramatic tension now: what will she do about the trolling comments! oh no, her page rank is falling!

I guess it can't be any worse than Batman and Robin, but still, you can do better than this Uma!

Posted by: karenology at August 13, 2009 1:08 PM


















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