just watch it!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

This hidden gem is a pretty scary and well filmed thriller. And that cast is amazing - all top notch. Jamie Lee Curtis is terrific as the unhinged family abandoning mother of three boys who returns after a 3 year absence and wants her place in her family back. Unfortunately for her, her husband played by the multi talented Peter Gallagher has moved on with a young assistant principal played by the very lovely Joanne Whalley Kilmer. The young children mainly the eldest ends up a pawn in the wack job mother's plans. Vanessa Redgrave plays grandmother.The movie is quite scary and unpredictable. Not dated even though it's from the early 90s. Watch it.

Imagine a drama about a woman who abandoned her husband and children. The husband rebuilds his life with a good new woman. Then, years later. the errant wife returns with no warning, expects life to continue as it had done before, and takes it extremely badly when the husband makes it clear that she has no place in his new life.Imagine this scenario presented on screen as a fine, gripping drama. And now forget it, because that that's not what you're getting here.No, what Mother's Boys gives us is the most lurid melodrama imaginable, topped off with a performance of hysterical malevolence from Jamie Lee Curtis.The whole thing is so overblown, particularly the climax (which can, with justification, be called something of a cliffhanger), that hindsight encourages one to view it as, perhaps, something of a comedy - whether deliberate or inadvertent is open to debate.Overall, it's rather fun. But it's not subtle.

I vaguely remember seeing this in a theatre in 1994 and loving it. I saw it on a huge screen and, visually, it's impressive and I've always liked Jamie Lee Curtis. But seeing it on a TV screen the visuals don't work too well and, despite some good acting, this is a pretty lame horror film.Jude (Curtis) leaves her husband Robert (Peter Gallagher) and their three kids. Three years later she returns thinking she can restart where they left off--but Robert is divorcing her and marrying kind Callie (Joanne Whalley)and one of her sons named Kes (Luke Edwards) hates her. Jude slowly starts to go crazy when she realizes Robert doesn't want her back and tries to manipulate Kes into getting rid of Callie...for good! First off--the plot is old hat and a lot is left unexplained. We never find out why Jude left, where she was (she mentions Paris and New York...but WHAT was she doing there?) and why she becomes a psycho when Robert rejects her. Also there is a VERY sick sequence when she almost tries to get Kes into bed with her! The ending is disturbing (and pretty stupid) and doesn't anyone realize that Kes is going to have severe emotional issues over this? The few saving graces are some truly beautiful visuals and settings (check out Curtis' apartment and Gallaghers' house) and a powerhouse performance by Curtis. She looks incredibly sexy and goes all out in her role. Whalley (a good actress) has nothing to work with and Gallagher doesn't even try. Edwards was just OK in his role but he was only 14 when he did this. Vanessa Redgrave is very good in her too few scenes as Judes' mother.So, aside from visuals and Curtis this movie has little to recommend this. Also, why did Curtis pick this to do when she's made it clear that she hates horror films? A 6.

Be warned if you're one of those people who looks at the cast credits of movies and says " hmm some fairly well known names there I think I'll watch this " then you don't know what you're letting yourself in for . On the surface the cast list is good with well known names like Jamie Lee Curtis , Joanne Whalley , Josh Ackland and Vanessa Redgrave along with a few familiar faces like John C McGinley and Peter Gallagher but it's vital to remember that good casts don't always make good films MOTHER'S BOYS does get off to a highly entertaining start . Notice I said highly entertaining start and not a good start . It's down to the incompetence of director Yves Simoneau where we see a biology class full of children being asked to dissect frogs , so one young lad decides to give Mr Frog a damn good stabbing which causes his class mates to run around screaming . Remember the bit in NAKED GUN where OJ Simpson gets shot then he starts crashing into things ? Well we see a similar situation here where children knock things like mice cages over which contributes to even more panic . I was expecting someone to bang into a cage housing giant dinosaurs thereby letting loose a brontosaruas but sadly this doesn't happen . It's still very amusing though . As the story continues we eventually find out ( After about 40 minutes which is never a good sign ) that the plot involves divorcée Robert Madigan being stalked by his ex-wife Jude . So it's basically one of those psycho thrillers from the mid 1990s that we've seen far too many times I should warn you though that my utter distaste for this movie isn't because it suffers from a worn out premise , I saw FEAR the previous week and enjoyed it immensely , no my problem with MOTHER'S BOYS is that it contains a scene where Jude walks around naked in front of her 12 year old son then asks him to bring the phone to her as she sits in the bath . Again I refer to the incompetence of director Yves Simoneau because this scene comes across as downright objectionable since it looks like Jude is trying to seduce her son and it's this one scene more than the clichéd hackneyed plot and poor storytelling that makes this a film to avoid