It is rare to find a movie that will make you laugh so hard
that you find yourself scrambling for the remote. Not so that you can fast
forward to get away from the movie but because you were laughing so hard that
you missed something else and now have to rewind to catch that joke as well.
It's a good thing and so is the movie MOM'S NIGHT OUT.
Allyson (Sarah Drew) is a part time blogger/full time mother
trying to wrangle three pre-school children at home. Her husband Sean (Sean
Astin) is an architect who tries to help when he is home but more often than
not is out and about working or taking guy time out with his friend Kevin.
Needless to say Sarah's stress level is about to explode.
Allyson's best friends are Izzy (Andrea Logan White) and
Sondra (Patricia Heaton). Izzy is Sarah's age with two kids of her own and a
husband with a fear of children. Sondra is the oldest of the three, the wife of
the pastor of their church and dealing with her own child, not pre-school mind
you but the next step of aggravation, a teenager. When Allyson has had enough
she suggests they have a night out, just the three of them. With a coupon at
the local high class restaurant plans are made.
Things start to go wrong when Sean's half sister Bridget (Abbie
Cobb) comes to dinner and asks Allyson to watch her baby while she starts a new
job that same night. Allyson turns her down but Sean steps in, learning for the
first time about the girl's night out, and says he'll baby sit. He wants
Allyson to go out, to unwind and to have a good time. He appreciates her and
all she does believing more in her success than she does.
All seems fine right? That is until it all starts to unravel
beginning with their reservation messed up. Mix that with ever ringing cell
phones from husbands who can't seem to deal with the same things these women do
every day and it gets worse. I'm not talking about worse because of the cell
phones either. By the end we have babies in tattoo parlors, stolen vehicles,
bikers, cops, waste heads and children with the uncanny ability to find a way
to get into trouble at the local pizza and gaming establishment. And that's
just a few things that happen.
The energy if frenetic in this film and never seems to let
up. Something seems to constantly be happening here. Each opportunity to turn
one of these negative things into something funny is taken and it works each
and every time. But more than that the movie also provides an opportunity to
bring about a message about faith, about God and about mother's deserving
praise non-stop. It becomes something that offers a positive message among the
chaos that begins in the first moments and runs through till almost the last
image.
If you have children, or if you have relatives with
children, you'll certainly relate to so much that happens in this movie.
Perhaps not the same circumstances but at least the same sort of minor life
explosions that come with having children. At the same time you'll be reminded
that children are a blessing and that even some of the worst things they seem
to do can turn around to be amazing displays of creativity and affection.
As I said when beginning this
review to find a movie that is laugh out loud funny from start to finish these
days is rare indeed. When you can find one that is inspiring as well it makes
it even more special. I know that MOM'S NIGHT OUT will find a comfortable space
in my collection to be watched every now and then when I need to do two things:
to have a laugh and to be reminded how great mothers are. My guess is you'll
want to do the same after watching it the first time.
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