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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.

The Sound of Music

Hollywood movies from Cinderella to Stepmom typically represent stepmothers as problems, or much worse, but The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965) is the only film I’ve seen that solves…

Mama at the Movies | March 2007 | By Caroline Grant


The Motherhood Manifesto

When my mom went back to work full-time she had to make a choice. But we shouldn’t have to make that choice. There should be time for childrearing, breadwinning, bread-making,…

Mama at the Movies | February 2007 | By Caroline Grant


The Squid and The Whale

Laura Linney’s Joan is pale and unglamorous, the very portrait of the weary mother-writer. She doesn’t want marriage anymore, but she doesn’t apologize for what she does want: her home;…

Mama at the Movies | January 2007 | By Caroline Grant


It’s A Wonderful Life

Christmas Eve, 2002 It’s my first Christmas as a mom, and I as sit rocking infant Ben to sleep in the darkened room, I realize that the ubiquitous Christmas telecast…

Mama at the Movies | December 2006 | By Caroline Grant


Transamerica

It took me one month to get pregnant. It took me 38 1/2 weeks (gestation), 5 hours (labor), and 37 minutes (pushing) to become a mother. My route to parenthood,…

Mama at the Movies | November 2006 | By Caroline Grant


Little Miss Sunshine

Ben used to wear a shiny yellow clip on one side of his head and a whale spout of a pigtail on the other. He called it “dress-up hair.” His…

Mama at the Movies | October 2006 | By Caroline Grant


My Life Without Me

You’re a twenty-three year old mother of two. You’re married to the only man you’ve ever kissed, a sweet guy you met at Nirvana’s last concert. Your dad’s in prison,…

Mama at the Movies | October 2006 | By Caroline Grant


The Incredibles

You know the look. You’re at a party, having a perfectly fine conversation with someone you don’t know, when they ask what you do. If your answer includes the words…

Mama at the Movies | August 2006 | By Caroline Grant


An Inconvenient Truth

Ah, summer in San Francisco. Breezy days, foggy nights, covering the children in paradoxical layers of sunscreen and fleece. But on an uncharacteristically balmy night recently, Tony and I headed…

Mama at the Movies | August 2006 | By Caroline Grant


The Secret Lives of Dentists

“Da!” Eli announces when I fetch him after his nap. “Da! Da-daaah!” “Mama,” I answer. “Mama.” I know I shouldn’t take it personally – he’s just using the one sound…

Mama at the Movies | July 2006 | By Caroline Grant


Iris

On my first day of maternity leave, I took myself and my basketball belly off to a matinee. From the theater lobby’s plate glass windows, I looked down on the…

Mama at the Movies | June 2006 | By Caroline Grant


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