Mom and Me

Mom and Me (sometimes stylized as Mom & Me) is a 2015 documentary film written and directed by Ken Wardrop. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September 2015.

Mom and Me
Poster
Directed byKen Wardrop
Written byKen Wardrop
Produced byAndrew Freedman
Production
companies
Uncork'd Entertainment
Indiecan Entertainment
Visit Films
Irish Film Board
Ffilm Cymru Wales CBC
Venom Films
Bulb Films
Release date
Running time
77 minutes
CountryIreland
LanguageEnglish

Plot

The film documents the life of men, and women who raise them.

Production and release

Mom and Me was shot in Oklahoma.[1] The film was premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September 2015, where it was greeted to an acclaim.[2]

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 100% approval rating based on 8 reviews, with an average ranking of 8.4/10.[3]

Nigel M Smith of The Guardian wrote "Each portrait melds to create a heartrending whole guaranteed to make men think to call their mothers more often. To those who have lost their mothers, the experience of watching Mom and Me might prove unbearable -- it's that touching".[1]

Aine O'Connor of the Irish Independent cautioned that "The men who end up talking are not random, they're a carefully-selected, cross-section and their reflections are funny and sometimes very moving".[4]

In a review for The Irish Times, Donald Clarke wrote "[the director] chooses his own emotional environment and he explores it with admirable sensitivity and humour. Worth the admission price for the pets alone".[5]

According to Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter "There is no real wisdom imparted in these stories, only evidence of the weird variety of humankind and the imperishability of that most essential and elemental of human relationships, between a mother and child".[6]

The national film magazine, Film Ireland, praised the film for "captur[ing] the universal experience of motherly love perfectly",[7]

References
  1. Smith, Nigel M. (6 September 2015). "Mom and Me review: devastating study of motherly love in US's 'manliest state'". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  2. Clarke, Donald (7 September 2015). "Ken Wardrop's Mom and Me opens at Telluride to acclaim". The Irish Times. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  3. "Mom & Me (2015)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  4. O'Connor, Aine (18 July 2016). "Film review: Mom & Me - reflections are funny and sometimes very moving". Irish Independent. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  5. Clarke, Donald (14 July 2016). "The most manly men crumble when mother raises her voice". The Irish Times. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  6. McCarthy, Todd (13 September 2015). "'Mom and Me': Telluride Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  7. Creagh, Gemma (3 January 2017). "Irish Film Review: Mom and Me". Film Ireland.


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