Mother (1996 film)

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Mother
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Directed by	Albert Brooks
Produced by	Herb Nanas Scott Rudin
Written by	Albert Brooks Monica Mcgowan Johnson
Starring	Albert Brooks Debbie Reynolds Rob Morrow Lisa Kudrow John C. McGinley
Music by	Marc Shaiman
Cinematography	Lajos Koltai
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	December 27, 1996 (limited) January 24, 1997 (wide)
Running time	104 min.
Country	US
Language	English
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Mother is a 1996 movie directed and written by Albert Brooks, and starring Brooks and Debbie Reynolds. The comedy involves a failed science fiction writer who attempts to improve his relations with his mother....by moving in with her.

[edit] Trivia

Albert Brooks wanted a famous actress from the 1950s to play the role of Mother, and originally offered the role to retired actresses Nancy Reagan and Doris Day. Day refused. Reagan loved the script and considered coming out of retirement for her first acting role in more than forty years, but decided instead to stay home and care for her husband, Ronald Reagan, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Brooks then asked his good friend Carrie Fisher if he could send the script to her mother, Debbie Reynolds. Reynolds happily accepted the part.

[edit] Reception

Mother became the highest-grossing Brooks-directed film to date, with a total of $19 million earned at the box-office.[1] It also won the most awards of the films which Brooks has directed. Brooks and co-writer Monica Mcgowan Johnson won the New York Film Critics Circle Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay. Debbie Reynolds won a Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.