Mother and Child

An engaging, well-acted, down-to-earth, star-studded (Amy Brenneman, David Morse, S. Epatha Merkerson, Elizabeth Peña, and Cherry Jones) ensemble 2009 film about the relationships between mothers and their children, including a coldhearted woman (Annette Bening) who marries a kindhearted coworker (Jimmy Smits) and searches for the daughter she gave up 40 years earlier after the death of her invalid mother (Eileen Ryan), an African-American bakery shop owner (Kerry Washington) and her husband (David Ramsey) who want to adopt, and an ambitious, smart, seductive, bitter lawyer (Naomi Watts) who becomes pregnant after an affair with her widowed boss (Samuel L. Jackson) and her neighbor (Mark Blucas) whose wife (Carla Gallo) is pregnant.
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