9 Movies To Watch This Mother’s Day

This body-swapping comedy is most likely the first Mother’s Day movie to come to mind. This movie is a great reminder for us to appreciate everything our moms do for us.    

This witty comedy is a remake of the 1976 movie produced under the same name. If you are feeling nostalgic, check out the original.

There’s nothing quite like watching The Joy Luck Club on Mother’s Day. 

The movie focuses on the experiences that four Chinese immigrant women go through as they try to raise their Chinese-American daughters.  

Have some tissues on your lap, it may bring tears. No matter how different their mentalities are between the two generations, their mother-daughter bond remains strong.  

Brie Larson won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Joy in Room. Joy is a woman who escaped captivity, after seven years, with her young son Jack.

This is an intense and harrowing one. Everything that Joy does for her son is undeniably unforgettable.

Moving on to something more light-hearted – Easy A. 

Love Emma Stone as Olive here, as well as the funny, oversharing mom, Rosemary. 

Open-minded Rosemary talks parental love with her daughter after a little white lie about Olive losing her virginity gets out in her high school.

This is a childhood favourite!

Things get interesting when separated identical twins accidentally reunite over summer camp and come up with the brilliant idea to bring their parents back together.  

This 2016 tearjerker shows a young adopted Indian boy, Saroo, on a quest to find his long lost biological family. 

Nicole Kidman, who plays the boy’s adoptive mom, is fully supportive throughout.  

Looking for a way to say “I Love You” to your mom without saying anything at all? Watch this Oscar-nominated movie. 

Many critics considered this as one of the best movies of the 2010s.

It is a coming-of-age story of Lady Bird and her strained relationship with her mom. They did however manage to take small steps towards reconciliation in the end.  

Juno is an independent-minded 16-year-old who has a complicated relationship with her stepmom.

An unplanned pregnancy at such a young age forced Juno to learn what it really takes to become a mom.

Boyhood depicts the life of a young Mason growing up until he turned 18 and went to college.

This groundbreaking story took 12 years to film. It charts the joys and pitfalls of childhood including family meals, birthdays and road trips.     

This article was first published on theAsianParent.