Angela Bassett stars in Otherhood on Netflix. Bassett plays straight-laced widow “Carol,” while Patricia Arquette stars as the free-spirited “Gillian” and Felicity Huffman is the classic Botox getting, never-aging, uptight “Helen” in this hilarious, warm, fun loving comedy about motherhood on the other side of 40. The three veteran actors also served as executive producers of Otherhood.
Shot on location in New York City, Otherhood is a comedy that tells the story of three mothers who find themselves as empty nesters frustrated at how little their grown sons communicate with them or show love for their mothers. The trio of best friends who met when their sons were 10 and doing play dates, decides on Mothers Day to take a surprise trip from Poughkeepsie, NY to the Big Apple to check up on their grown sons.
What the mothers and sons discover in Otherhood is that they really don’t know each other at all. The film also reveals some deep-rooted secrets between the moms about their husbands and families. In this process of rediscovery, the sons learn how special their mothers truly are and come to appreciate the sometimes-overbearing moms for their unique qualities and vice versa.
Otherhood is a film women of a certain age will certainly appreciate, like how it might feel as a middle age woman to look around one day and notice that all of a sudden you have become invisible to others as you go about your daily life in this youth-driven society we live in. These ladies flip that and show if you open up to the fact that even if you are a woman of a certain age, if you are alive, you can still be a fabulous sexy mama!
Check out Otherhood on Netflix now, you’ll be glad you did.
*** ½ Stars (3 ½ out of 5 stars)