MOVIES
Thursday, May 6, 2021 • ThE BuLLETIN
GO! MAGAZINE • PAGE 19
MOVIES ABOUT MOTHERHOOD
Saoirse
Ronan, left,
and Laurie
Metcalf per-
form in a
scene from
“Lady Bird”
(2017).
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BY MAKENZIE WHITTLE • The Bulletin
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eing a mom is hard, whether birthing a child, adopting one or simply stepping up to the plate when a kid needs
someone. While many movies featuring motherly relationships have to squeeze every ounce of drama into a two-
hour run time, some of them do it very well, demonstrating these movie moms have what it takes.
”Lady Bird” (2017) — Laurie Metcalf and
Saoirse Ronan beautifully portray a compli-
cated and complex mother-daughter rela-
tionship in Greta Gerwig’s highly acclaimed
film. Ronan plays an artistic and driven
high school senior Lady Bird as she begins
to apply to colleges, dreaming of leaving her
humdrum life in Sacramento, California
for the busy streets of New York City. All of
this while her hard-working mother strug-
gles to connect with her and isn’t as thrilled
with Lady Bird’s decision to apply to schools
they can not afford. Featuring a stellar sup-
porting cast around them, the whole film
is a triumph. Stream it on Netflix or rent it
on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play,
Vudu or YouTube.
”Lilo & Stitch” (2002) — This now-classic
animated family comedy focuses on a moth-
erly relationship between sisters after a trag-
edy forced big sister Nani (voiced by Tia Car-
rere) to care for her little sister Lilo (voiced by
Daveigh Chase). But things aren’t going well
for Lilo and Nani as family services have been
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Submitted photo
From left: Vanessa Williams, Irma P. Hall and Vivica A Fox in a scene from “Soul Food” (1997).