Celebrate ‘Mother’s Day Eve’ and Win 1 of 3 Motherhood DVDs – out on DVD 8th March
To promote the release of MOTHERHOOD, starring Uma Thurman and Minnie Driver – ASDA, MUMS.NET and METRODOME DISTRIBUTION have launched a special new date in the calendar – ‘MOTHER’S DAY EVE’ - which will fall on the Saturday night 13th March before Mothering Sunday, 14th March 2010. If you go on the movies website www.motherhoodmovie.com you can download some free pampering voucers and a manifesto to give your partner demanding your rights on Mothers Day Eve, whether you have girls night in or a night on the town!
About the film
New comedy ‘MOTHERHOOD’ follows Uma Thurman as mother and wife racing against the clock to prepare for her daughter’s sixth birthday party in the face of chaos.From writer/director Katherine Dieckmann, the acclaimed filmmaker of DIGGERS and A GOOD BABY, comes MOTHERHOOD, starring Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot entirely on location in New York’s West Village, this bittersweet comedy distils the dilemmas of the maternal state (marriage, work, self, and not necessarily in that order) into the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day. MOTHERHOOD forms a genre of one – no other movie has dedicated itself in quite this way to probing exactly what it takes to be a mother, with both wry humour and an acute sense of authenticity.
Eliza Welch (Thurman) is a former fiction writer-turned-mom-blogger with her own site, “The Bjorn Identity.” Putting her deeper creative ambitions on hold to raise her two children, Eliza lives and works in two rent-stabilized apartments in a walk-up tenement building smack in the middle of an otherwise upscale Greenwich Village. Eliza’s good-natured but absent-minded husband (Edwards) seems tuned out to his wife’s conflicts, not to mention basic domestic reality, while her best friend Sheila (Minnie Driver) understands this – and Eliza — all too well.
MOTHERHOOD is a hymn to the joys and sorrows of raising children, and the necessity of not losing yourself in the process.
How to win the DVD
I have 3 dvds up for grabs so please just leave a comment about what you would do on your ideal Mothers Day Eve. You will then be put into the draw and I will use a random number generator to pick 2 winners on Sunday night. Good luck everyone!
I feel really guilty now because I’ve just entered this on another blog. But I really like the sound of the DVD so I’ll enter here too!! If for any chance I win both (yeah, fat chance) then I’ll give one away on my blog.
CJ xx
Oooh, boring, but probably I’d have a mindset swop with my husband, where I get to see our lovely girls, and have a bit of a play with them, but not feel any real requirement to actually properly supervise them, or get tea ready, or get them upstairs for bed and bath, but instead just swan around enjoying playing around with them, plus a little shut eye on the sofa and watching rubbish TV, and wander off to do some other bits and bobs whenever I felt like it, whilst he sorted out everything, magically made the tea and tidied up. Then a lovely long bubbly bath followed by a lovely meal and wine by candlelight….
Ooh a perfect Mothers Day Eve? Well I guess that to start with I would let Daddy take the children out for the day and let me potter around the house. I would have a nice lunch and of course when Daddy and the children came home I would help put them to bed. I would have to go and have a nice relaxing bath of my own after that and maybe have a J20 or two whilst I was in there… when I got out of the bath I would retire to my room to watch a DVD or two with chinese food and candles and Daddy if I felt like it!
Well Becky, of being able to have a DVD of my very own would be nice, and going upstairs to my bedrooma and watching it without a child bouncing on the bed and asking “what are you doing” would be nicer. If i do win that is exactly what i will do , if i dont i will be ironing school clothes so i dont have to do it on mothers day.
Hope I get the DVD ( but then I’ll have to work out how to fix the DVD player!)….a perfect Mothers day will be seeing my children being happy and contented and Angus always picks some fab flowers (I don’t like to ask ‘where’ from exactly..) and they club together their pocket money and isn’t just lovely that they are so excited too!
Sounds really lame but my perfect mothers day eve would be cuddled up under a blanket with my lil guy watching George of the Jungle … boring huh? But its what makes me happy
For a perfect mothers day eve, it would have to be a massage followed by a pedicure and finishing with a nice hot bubble bath. Then a lovely homecooked meal with a glass (or two) of red wine, finished with a snuggle on the settee with husband and child watching tom & jerry – in PJ’s and dressing gown of course!
My perfect mothers day eve would be snuggled up on the sofa with my little monkey watching one of her dvds and munching on popcorn before putting her to bed. Followed by a nice meal cooked by my other half (which would be a miracle as first he’d have to get back from spain and second he’d have to learn how to cook, but I can live in hope!), a lovely deep bubble bath and then cudding up on the sofa with my man while munching my way through a box of chocolates! Heaven!
I’m back with my answer; I would have a hot lavender bubble bath, get my pj’s on and get in bed. Have a chat on Twitter, watch whatever I wanted on telly, wait for my cuppa at 9.30, then expect to be ravaged by Martin Shaw. And if he wasn’t available, I’d settle for my husband.
CJ xx
Perfect mothers day eve? well it has to start off with the children, as somehow they’re key to the mothers day thing! Something very lovely and homely, something where all three of them agree to do the same thing at roughly the same time…in my ideal mothers day eve it would be something like baking (yes, because i love cake and all things confectionery), and i’d be calm and not worry that the mixer has just created a cloud storm of flour heading toward the newly cleaned sofa (this is all ideal, so naturally the sofa is clean..while i’m at it, the kitchen is immaculate too!!) or that they’ve all cracked the eggs while the flour storm had me distracted and one is picking the eggshells out while the sugar mountain now tipped on the scales is threatening to overshadow the flour disaster. And i would be wearing a cath kidston apron, humming song tunes while smiling at the domestic bliss surrounding me.
Then, later, clean, bathed and smelling of roses (forgetting the hayfever a high percentage of my family suffer from) we’d watch something fabulously funny and heartwarming on the sofa (unfloured). The film finished the chldren would volunteer to brush their teeth, complete all necessary ablutions and read Famous Five stories to each other before I tuck them up, give them all a big squeeze and a kiss, tell them i love them ….and head for the sofa to consume a bottle of wine and the remainder of the shell filled cakes that havent already been mauled!!
…sorry, got a little carried away, what was the question again?
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