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Mama at the Movies

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

Despicable Me

I met my husband Tony on a blind date during which we mostly talked about our dads. It didn’t strike me as strange, how quickly we found common ground via…

Mama at the Movies | June 2011 | By Caroline Grant


Rabbit Hole

I took myself off to see Rabbit Hole alone, tissues at hand, ready to handle the weepy. Nicole Kidman plays Becca, whose four-year-old son Danny was struck by a car…

Mama at the Movies | February 2011 | By Caroline Grant


What’s On Your Plate?

My boys, as I tell them regularly, are incredibly lucky with their school lunch program. It wasn’t always this way. My husband went to the same school, in a time…

Mama at the Movies | January 2011 | By Caroline Grant


Black Swan and Burlesque

A boy from my sons’ school moved to Moscow this year to dance with the Bolshoi. When I heard this, I felt that familiar parental stew of conflicting emotions: selfish…

Mama at the Movies | January 2011 | By Caroline Grant


Casa de los Babys

About halfway through watching Casa de los Babys, I put down my pen and stopped taking notes, mesmerized. John Sayles’ 2003 film tells the story of six women living in…

Mama at the Movies | October 2010 | By Caroline Grant


Race to Nowhere

That Race to Nowhere (2009) became a kind of homework project for me is appropriate, because Vicki Abeles’ powerful movie documents the mad pressures of homework on American children. And…

Mama at the Movies | September 2010 | By Caroline Grant


Three Small Documentaries With a Big Impact

They say “Little kids, little problems; big kids, big problems.” The expression really bugged me when I was the weary mother of little kids; who’s to say my sleepless nights…

Mama at the Movies | August 2010 | By Caroline Grant


Babies

Recently a couple mom-friends joined me to see the beautifully-filmed new documentary, Babies (Thomas Balmès, 2010) and because of the company, I found myself thinking more about the film’s moms…

Mama at the Movies | July 2010 | By Caroline Grant


The Kids Grow Up

Faced with his child about to go college, Doug Block decided to make a movie. In fact, he has been filming his daughter, Lucy, her whole life; as he puts…

Mama at the Movies | June 2010 | By Caroline Grant


Sunshine

My son Eli’s stuffed doggie got married last month. Out of the blue, Eli announced the engagement, and then looked through the pile of stuffies to find Doggie a suitable…

Mama at the Movies | May 2010 | By Caroline Grant


Sperm Donor X

I must have been in second grade when I first thought about how old I would be in the year 2000 — 32 — and what my life would be…

Mama at the Movies | April 2010 | By Caroline Grant


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