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Motherhood is about a conventional family living a conventional life in a conventional way. This life isn t perfect, but whose life is? The father is absentminded but means well, the kids are normal, the mother is trying to juggle parental duties and her plans for a career. This could be countless families. Why do we require a movie about this particular one? The film stars Uma Thurman, doing her best with a role that may offer her less than any other in her career, even though she s constantly onscreen. She s Eliza, who takes her laptop along to the playground to work on her blog, which is just a blog. She s not cooking her way through Julia Child or anything. Her husband is played by Anthony Edwards. I didn t remember the character s name after seeing the movie, so I checked with IMDb, and he doesn t seem to have one. That tells you something. ....