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Smother - Diane Keaton, Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler, Vince Di Meglio

Threat advisory: Low - Low risk of entertaining activities

Movie propaganda

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!

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film comedy mother son relationship wife house overbearing

Persons of interest

Diane Keaton .... Marilyn Cooper
Dax Shepard .... Noah Cooper
Liv Tyler .... Clare Cooper
Mike White .... Myron Stubbs
Ken Howard .... Gene Cooper
Selma Stern .... Helen Cooper
Jerry Lambert .... Donnie Booker
Don Lake .... Minister
Sarah Lancaster .... Holly
Cameron Bender .... Jim
Cindy Clark .... Barbara
Jacque Lynn Colton .... Cindy
Frank Crim .... Bob
Lucas Gorak .... Tommy
Taj Hester .... Beagle
George Kendall .... Tony
Jim Leung .... Hartanto
Tara Moore .... Pippi
Alexandra Murdy .... Annika
Steven Christopher Parker .... Dana
Jerry Sherman .... Art
Cletus Young .... Sam
Tim Rasmussen .... Screenwriter
Vince Di Meglio .... Screenwriter
Vince Di Meglio .... Director

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Hoyts Distribution

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

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.

Government security censorship classification

M (Moderate sexual references and coarse language)

Surveillance time

92 minutes (1:32 hours)

Not for public release in Australia before date

Film: 8 May 2008