Everyone wants to be loved. Just not this much.
What would you do if your mother moved in with you and just wouldn't leave?
Noah Cooper (Dax Shepard) has been fired from his job as a physiotherapist and thinks his day can't possibly get worse. He arrives home to discover his life will become even crazier when Marilyn (Diane Keaton), his overbearing mother, arrives needing a place to stay. Comedy ensues as Noah learns to deal with the pressures of finding a job, a wife who desperately wants a baby, and worst of all a mother who won't quit smothering!
Special Agent Matti
Smother tries hard but lacks charm. All the elements of a wacky, hard-done-by guy comedy are there but the funny people should be serious and the serious people should be funny. Making the psychologically-disturbed mother an object of derision rather than the recipient of therapy crossed over the line between good-natured humour and bad taste. In another movie she'd be hilarious but in this one she's just sad.
Dax Shepard looks better with blond hair (see Employee of the month).
The comedy movie Smother is directed by Vince Di Meglio and stars Diane Keaton, Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler.
M (Moderate sexual references and coarse language)
92 minutes (1:32 hours)
Film: 8 May 2008
