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Above all, she keeps her mother??s advice for success in mind: “At a place like Harvard with so many choices, you just have to love what you do, and you’ll do it well...
...lack of multidimensional mothers on film,” Dieckmann says. She didn’t want to create a suburban family comedy (“We’ve seen that movie,” she explains), nor did she aim to produce yet another film about a mother??s psychological crisis. “I didn’t want [to portray] the mother who’s dealing with a drug problem, or a suicidal child,” she says. “I wanted an everyday mother...
...heart of New York City’s bustling Greenwich Village. Despite the fact that most young families reside in suburban or rural areas, Dieckmann and Thurman were determined to capture the unique challenges of raising a child in the city. “The urban environment makes a mother??s challenges more hyperbolic,” Dieckmann explains. Thurman, too, appreciated the film’s treatment of the difficulties encountered when starting a family in a metropolis. “The urban environment is actively antagonistic to family life,” she says...
Over the past few decades, medical improvements have made parenthood possible for millions of couples suffering from infertility. One of the main technological breakthroughs is in-vitro fertilization, which unites the sperm and egg in a test tube before implanting the embryo in the mother??s womb. The technology, however, comes at a high price. The procedure itself is expensive, but, more importantly, it can greatly increase the chance of seeing birth complications...
...sons—George, who narrates the film, and Robbie—are underdeveloped as characters. They toss out stock adolescent protests like “You don’t even know me” from time to time, but their main role is on their mother??s coattails. The plot itself is supposed to be at least loosely based on the childhood of perennially bronzed Hollywood has-been George Hamilton, but this could easily escape the average viewer’s notice. These blemishes are also negligible, as the movie truly belongs to Zellweger...