Released in 2016, Happy Mother's Dayis a romanticcomedy-drama by Garry Marshall, known for his choral films such as Valentine's Day and Happy New Year. The film reunites Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis in a series of intersecting stories about motherhood, blended families and emotional ties. It will be available on HBO Max from August 14, 2025.
The trailer heralds a tender, light-hearted film, a mix of comical family situations and touching moments.
Happy Mother's Day will air on HBO Max from August 14, 2025.
Synopsis: Coupled or separated, in love, courageous, clumsy, touching... As Mother's Day approaches, discover the intersecting destinies of several girls, women, mothers (and fathers!) of families. A day when you'll learn that everything can change.
Following in the footsteps of his previous festive films, Garry Marshall offers a multiplotromantic comedy centered on the celebration of Mother's Day. The film interweaves several stories: an overwhelmed single mother, a woman confronted with a family secret, a widowed father trying to honor this symbolic day, and other narratives that intersect as the day progresses.
The story focuses on current family dynamics, communication difficulties, unexpected reunions and small everyday moments that take on new meaning as a collective event approaches.
Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson play the lead roles, each embodying a different facet of modern motherhood and family relationships. Alongside them, Jason Sudeikis, Britt Robertson and Timothy Olyphant complete this gallery of characters with varied backgrounds, but all linked by the same theme: the importance of human bonds.
The film's choral structure allows it to tackle a wide range of situations, from grief and reconciliation to solo parenthood and generational misunderstandings.
Happy Mother's Day is aimed at adult and family audiences looking for a tender, accessible film. Those who enjoyed Valentine's Day, What Women Want or Love Actually may find a similar atmosphere here, combining light-hearted humor, sincere emotions and cross-cultural portraits.
The film could be suitable for multi-generational viewing, with a sympathetic view of families in all their diversity.
Our review of Happy Mother's Day:
In the United States, this special day is called Mother's Day: an entire day dedicated to moms, taking place in spring and celebrated with gifts made at school and breakfasts in bed. A little more kitschy than in France, Mother's Day is taken very seriously by Americans, and the proof is in the new film by Garry Marshall, a specialist in marshmallow films that make you laugh and cry.
This ultra-colorful comedy explores the fates of several completely different moms: one (Jennifer Aniston) is divorced from a man who has just remarried a very young woman, another (Julia Roberts) doesn't know her daughter and declares herself childless (until...), while a third, slightly nerdy mother arrives at the home of her daughters who have lied to her for years, hiding an Indian husband and a lesbian family.
In short, the past clashes with the present, tradition with modernity,"I'll call you back" with"tweet me". Garry Marshall takes advantage of this family celebration to show that times have changed, and so have families: divorced, abandoned, widowed, lesbian or married to an Indian, the film's characters all have different, more or less atypical characteristics, at odds with the"one dad, one mom, two kids" family ideal. That's why we laugh, that's why we get teary-eyed, and why we leave this entertaining film with a light heart.
Mother's Day is a choral comedy directed by Garry Marshall, starring Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis. Through several interwoven stories, the film explores family relationships from a light-hearted yet touching angle. It will be available on HBO Max from August 14, 2025.
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