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Just in time to be two months late for Mother’s Day, Netflix has dropped a trailer for its upcoming comedy, Otherhood, starring Felicity Huffman, Angela Bassett, and Patricia Arquette as scorned moms. (The film was originally slated for a Mother’s Day-appropriate release on April 26, but the date was pushed back to August 2, after Huffman’s involvement in the college admissions scandal.) Still, isn’t every a good day to give moms some love?
In Otherhood—written and directed by Sex in the City alum Cindy Chupack, produced by Cathy Schulman, and adapted from William Sutcliffe’s novel, Whatever Makes You Happy—Huffman, Bassett, Arquette play three friends whose grown sons all forget to wish them a happy Mother’s Day. They decide to take matters into their own hands: These mothers will have a relationship with their children, whether they like it or not. The plan? To just show up at their sons’ apartments in New York City and see what happens. “They can handle having us in their homes for a few days,” says Arquette’s character in the trailer. “They were in ours for 18 years!”
Of course, when they arrive, they don’t like what they find.
The supporting cast includes Jake Hoffman, Sinqua Walls, and Jake Lacy as the sons and Heidi Gardner, Molly Bernard, and Mario Cantone as the sons’ girlfriends. Like Wine Country, another 2019 Netflix film starring Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph as best friends on a lavish vacation in California, Otherhood explores the concerns of aging women. And though it’s a little ironic to see Huffman play a slightly unhinged overbearing mother given her recent controversy, you can’t say the casting’s not on point. Personally, I can’t wait to watch whatever scene it is that leads to Huffman dramatically smashing a bell pepper with a meat hammer. And the one where she twerks in her hotel room. And definitely, the one where she and Patricia Arquette go clubbing, where I assume there will be more twerking. I am ready for this film.
