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...Latifah has the most beautiful face in movies. I'm not sure what's in that smile, but it rarely seems less than radiant, and never more so than here. Hudson, who won an Oscar for Dreamgirls, is stalwart, defiant and winning as Lily's nanny and de facto stepmom. Okonedo, an Oscar nominee for Hotel Rwanda, has a poignant smile that breaks through May's tears like the sun during a storm; of all the strong performances in Bees, hers is the one most likely to attract Academy attention...
...other similarity in the two films: to this adult's eyes, they were of only middling quality. The Golden Compass was middling-good, with a beguiling central performance by 13-year-old Dakota Blue Richards, a slinky turn by Nicole Kidman as an evil-stepmom type and a nifty polar-bear fight. But the film never cohered, and at the end it trailed off into a preview of the two sequels that now don't look as if they'll be made. The first Narnia movie was middling-bad, its four lead child actors displaying little charm, their world holding...
...romantic interludes. He insists on giving false names to the three women with whom he was most memorably involved, forcing the child to guess which one was her mother. Eventually, she learns the truth and then, in a kind of coda, gets involved with helping Will choose her new stepmom...
...play the role of a mother in films. Which of your mom roles best reflects how you parent in real life? -Andrea Cooper, Hartford, Conn.There is a little bit of me in a lot of them. I had a lot to do with the creation of the mom in Stepmom. Some of the mistakes that she made, I have made. A lot of the details in Stepmom were things that came out of my relationship with my children. When I did Anywhere But Here, for instance, it was a nice way to practice learning to let go of my daughter...
...monkey"). The movie was written, in one of those only-in-Hollywood scenarios, by the equally idiosyncratic Diablo Cody after a talent manager stumbled across her blog and got her a deal. Garner and Jason Bateman play the potential parents, but it's Juno's dad (J.K. Simmons) and stepmom (Allison Janney) who steal the show. This is not the first movie this year in which people get pregnant and then find out how they feel about each other, but it could be the most humane.n