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	Topic by: underdog Posted: April 21, 2008 - 1:56 PM PDT Last Reply: May 7, 2008 - 9:43 AM PDT

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underdog	post #1  on April 21, 2008 - 1:56 PM PDT   We posted this question on Yahoo Answers but thought we might as well open it up here, too! Who are the best Mom Characters in Movies? Your favorite Movie Moms! They can be idealized moms, terrible moms, crazy or wonderful or both, but they should be the ones you always remember.
underdog	post #2  on April 21, 2008 - 2:31 PM PDT   What about the, uh, mom in Psycho. Norman, is that you? Or Murmur of the Heart? Mildred Pierce anyone?
shiftless	post #3  on April 21, 2008 - 4:11 PM PDT   Dawn Davenport or Babs Johnson. aka Divine BTW the description for Pink Flamingos is actually the one for Female Trouble, alert to catalog people.
weezy	post #4  on April 21, 2008 - 6:52 PM PDT   > On April 21, 2008 - 4:11 PM PDT shiftless wrote: > --------------------------------- > Dawn Davenport or Babs Johnson. aka Divine > > BTW the description for Pink Flamingos is actually the one for Female Trouble, alert to catalog people. > --------------------------------- g Thanks for the catch! I'm finding it hard to remember GOOD movie moms, all I can come up with are the evil movie moms/step moms like the the one from Sleeping Beauty.
DLeonard	post #5  on April 21, 2008 - 9:27 PM PDT   Not on DVD, and not a mom, but... Christine Lahti in Housekeeping takes care of her dead sister's two kids. It was a strange but fun little film. I think I would have enjoyed being raised by Aunt Sylvie (Lahti).
ABernstineIII	post #6  on April 22, 2008 - 10:36 AM PDT   > On April 21, 2008 - 1:56 PM PDT underdog wrote: > --------------------------------- > We posted this question on Yahoo Answers but thought we might as well open it up here, too! > > Who are the best Mom Characters in Movies? > > Your favorite Movie Moms! They can be idealized moms, terrible moms, crazy or wonderful or both, but they should be the ones you always remember. > --------------------------------- How about ANJELICA HOUSTON'S mother character, LILLY DILLION, in THE GRIFTERS. Talk about "a mothers love..." Her performance STILL gives me chills. If you have not seen it, or if it's been a while, I suggest you chek it out. Also JAMIE LEE CURTIS in MOTHERS BOYS deserves an honorable mention.
underdog	post #7  on April 22, 2008 - 11:52 AM PDT   Good suggestions all! And they can certainly be "bad" mothers, just good characters! > > --------------------------------- > How about ANJELICA HOUSTON'S mother character, LILLY DILLION, in THE GRIFTERS. Talk about "a mothers love..." Her performance STILL gives me chills. If you have not seen it, or if it's been a while, I suggest you chek it out. Definitely. Interesting, too, to think of all of Anjelica Huston's mother characters, not just that one. How about Agnes Browne? Or the Addams Family movies? (She was born to play Morticia!) Each one incredibly different but all worthy roles.
SirenTiger	post #8  on April 22, 2008 - 12:34 PM PDT   initiate startup shrdlu etaoin Hello World\n For chilling, how about Angela Lansbury as the mother willing to brainwash her son in the original Manchurian Candidate?
AstroAppa	post #9  on April 22, 2008 - 11:16 PM PDT   i know she isn't in a movie, yet...but Loose Seal Bluth!! Make love in your own hand mother!
Hags888	post #10  on April 23, 2008 - 2:42 PM PDT   I gotta throw out Jennifer Coolidge as "Stifler's Mom" in American Pie. She's a hilarious comedian anyway, but she plays the "cougar" to a tee.
Vanamonde	post #11  on April 23, 2008 - 3:31 PM PDT   Chobits has a Good Mother and she is voiced by Inoue Kikiko the most kawaii voice in all of Japan! You may known her as Belldandy. See was also funny in "Clannad", which I don't believe has be licensed for region 1 yet. And in Air (TV) we have a woman who seems to be a good person but has to be Mom and she is the first to admit that she is not good at it. And as for Yui Ibuki, she is about as good a Mom as Yehweh is a father to Jesus. Some would blame her husband, but she went right along with him. But still a better a mom than Asuka's - these last two from "Neon Genesis Evangelion" (have mercy!) All recommended for all otaku!
kaream	post #12  on April 23, 2008 - 9:36 PM PDT   The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
kaream	post #13  on April 23, 2008 - 10:04 PM PDT   Clara Chevalier
kaream	post #14  on April 23, 2008 - 10:11 PM PDT   > On April 21, 2008 - 2:31 PM PDT underdog wrote: > --------------------------------- > > Or Murmur of the Heart? > > --------------------------------- Apologies -- I wasn't paying attention. Good example of an understanding and loving mother
kaream	post #15  on April 23, 2008 - 10:22 PM PDT   Well, there's always Sophie Von Essenbeck in La Caduta degli dei, though -- another loving mother
weezy	post #16  on April 25, 2008 - 10:51 AM PDT   Mrs. Robinson from the Graduate. The OG Milf!
underdog	post #17  on May 6, 2008 - 3:31 PM PDT   Okay, here we go: Erin's Best Movie Moms list, organized by mom archetype, not by film. Which types would you add? And who would you add under each category? There's no way she could capture every great (and not so great) mom character through film history, but her take is pretty darned good, imho.
underdog	post #18  on May 7, 2008 - 9:43 AM PDT   A couple more I thought of for Erin's list, as far as examples of Bad and/or Psycho Moms, were: Piper Laurie's mom in CARRIE. Man, that still upsets me even just thinking about her. Anjelica Huston THE GRIFTERS. Crazy Oedipal love!