Bait-and-switched at Mom's Night Out

[AuntCloud]

Those were two hours and $20 I'll never see back. It started out as a great idea - me and three good friends, on a night out, watching Mom's Night Out then heading to the Cheesecake Café to wrap things up. Oh boy, that movie was *not* what I call inspiring, uplifting, or anything but misogynist masquerading in cutesy, "hip" (double quotation marks) mommy-blogger package.

What did we have? A frazzled suburban SAHM with three healthy kids and a husband who brings enough money for her to stay home and keep a lovely house with all the right Pinterest touches. But oh my, is she stressed out! Those kids are chaos, and she likes a quiet clean house! Her blog only has three followers! She feels like a colossal failure at everything and mopes around while wiping her kids' messes. Her husband has the brilliant idea of her having one night off, and she somehow manages to have all her ducks in a row - including refusing to babysit her nephew while his single, working mom has to be at work. Good on her! She totally needs a night out to feel recharged and not worthless!

She puts her fancy (sleeveless!) dress and her glitzy heels on and sets off with her BFF and her pastor's wife. But alas, nothing goes right! You can read all about it on Rotten Tomatoes, but the night is a complete disaster, complete with a missing child, ER visit and jail, including a Taser incident - just like the PP! But wait, there's more! When our housewife hits rock bottom, sitting at the police station with a biker/tattoo artist named Bones, he shows her the way and tells her God has made her to do what she is meant to do (i.e. stay home and ditch the strappy heels), and she's miserable not because she needed a break but - revelation! because she has unrealistic expectations of perfection. The tiny kernel of truth was wrapped with so many gag-inducing inflections on the incompetency of men, how women can neverever take a break because, you know, men! And definitely not leave their children to go to work, because then they'll be left at a tattoo parlor and never seen again.

Apparently the creators of the movie also made "October Baby", an anti-abortion movie. I very rarely go to see a movie at the cinema, and even more rarely pay full price, and feel like I've been cheated. Buyers beware!

PS I went to see what the good people at Rotten Tomatoes had to say. Apparently I'm in the minority because Christian reviewers looooved it! And it's PG-rated - no dirty words!

[keen23]

It's only trending at 15% on Rotten Tomatoes- clearly rotten. Plus, it has Patrica Heaton, queen of the Pro-Lifers over 40 starring in it. I'd expect anything with Patricia Heaton to be ABC Family Movie of the Week caliber.

[DGayle]

Was this advertised as a Christian movie? It sounds so much like a "this is what happens when you want time without kids!" movie.

[thekate]

It's been mentioned positively a few times on AFR, and tweeted by Josh and Anna.

twitter.com/Anna_Duggar/status/464876900641685504

[AuntCloud]

Was this advertised as a Christian movie? It sounds so much like a "this is what happens when you want time without kids!" movie.

Yes, that is exactly what the movie was trying to show.

My bad - I didn't do my homework and apparently neither did the friend who organized the entire thing. I'm going through some ridiculously busy times with work, school and other stuff that needs to be done and literally not able to focus for very long on any non-essentials (FJ is on the essentials list, natch). Still, nothing was mentioned in the ads about "wholesome" (trigger word) or "faith-based" or any of that.

Watched "Click" last night with my family, in my own living room, for free other than the monthly Netflix fee, a small watermelon and a tub of expensive high-end yogurt. It's full of cuss words and sex scenes, fundies would faint three minutes in, but the message was pure truth. What a perfect antidote to a syrupy-sweet "clean" movie with a seriously dangerous bottom line.