As unlikely as it may sound, Uma Thurman’s actually got a role together for her next movie, Motherhood.
She’ll be playing a weary mother who starts blogging about her experiences as a weary mother, and the blog takes off because she’s preaching to the choir of other weary mothers out cruising the blogosphere.
And I think we can all agree that bloggers make incredible movie fodder, because after all, The Great Celebrity Twitter War captured the attention of an entire nation not six months ago.
Wait…you forgot about The Great Celebrity Twitter War? Oh…you never even HEARD of The Great Celebrity Twitter War. Yeah, there’s a reason–almost no one really cared about it. Even the people who wrote about it don’t really care about it.
That’s not to say you can’t make a good movie around blogging; I’m sure there’s a way to make an interesting one. But for now, I don’t look for Uma’s mommy blog movie to do very well. Not unless she can get a legion of mommies to get babysitters and get out to see it.
Uma Thurman will star in the independent drama Girl Soldier. Based on a true story, she will portray a cleric who helped rescue 140 schoolgirls abducted in Uganda.
Will Raee will direct from a script by Stephanie Pinola and Karen Croner. The story is based on Kathy Cook’s book “Stolen Angels.”
In 1996, a band of armed rebels abducted young girls to turn them into soldiers and sex slaves. A teacher at the school, Sister Caroline, tracked the rebels back to their camp to demand the girls’ release. 110 were returned to the nun, who then began a crusade over the next few years as she rallied parents, the government, the United Nations and the pope to aid in rescuing not only her own girls but other children in rebel captivity.
Thurman told Variety, “This is a film that had to get made. It’s beyond me that in this day and age the exploitation of child soldiers goes virtually unnoticed and unchecked by Western media.”
Thurman is so right in what she says. People in western civilization would be horrified if they knew how much kidnapping and slave trafficking actually occurs around the world.
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Magnolia Pictures seems to come out with literally a panoply of bizarre, out of nowhere material that can mostly only be had at the local video store. Sometimes, they even manage to get some big name actors involved like Evan Rachel Wood and Uma Thurman. One of the many from Magnolia is Graduation, a recent release that wants desperately to be Ocean’s Eleven for the high school set. This one will include Adam Arkin, in case you’re wondering.
Four friends are in some seriously deep trouble when one of their mother’s cancer gets so deeply bad that a bone marrow transplant is required to save her life. Of course, it’s about at this point where the mother’s health insurance decides that it’s costing entirely too much to keep this useless eater alive and thus cancels her coverage. Now, in order to save her life, the foursome’s going to need to drum up a hundred thousand dollars.
At this point, it can really only be described as convenient that one of the friends is the daughter of the manager of the town’s only bank.
You can imagine where this goes. If the phrase “bank robbery” crossed your mind, congratulations. You’re psychic, as proven by the fact that you know what a movie’s going to be about before you even see past the box art.
The down side of this movie is that it’s got low-budget stamped all over it. For instance, within the first three minutes we’re going to see one of the kids go to his job at “Value Basement”. This would not ordinarily be a problem except that, literally seconds later, a sign on the door reveals that they are in fact at a Big Lots. Nothing like a lapse in continuity to literally start the movie.
Aside from this, I do have to admit that the movie has its share of charm. While these young folks plot their felony, they also have to grapple with the more mundane things of life. They’ll have their relationship drama, and some romantic issues going on, and plenty of funnier things, like the green-haired friend storming the prom with his older woman date in tow.
Even better, the wheels will come off of their plan in rapid fashion, direct results of all those mundane things of life that just sort of seem to crop up. They say that there’s nothing like the feeling when a plan comes together. Conversely, there’s nothing quite like watching a plan fall apart and go wildly off the rails. While I’ll readily admit that the kids definitely have some mad improvisational skills, and they’re up against some fairly sizable obstacles by the end there, clearly no one taught them the KISS principle, or, Keep It Simple, Stupid. And being teenagers, plenty of things will get in the way of their little endeavor, but they in turn will bring to bear some incredible teamwork and some really clever plots. I’m downright impressed.
This movie almost has charm despite itself. It’s a good movie, that’s got plenty of serious low-budget problems, but it’s still trying its best. If it had paid a little closer attention and fixed some of its continuity errors, this would be a lot better off than it was.
But still, despite some mistakes, Graduation is a solid movie with a unique and clever plotline. Good enough to rate an eight out of ten, anyway.
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Uma Thurman In Scene From "Motherhood"
Freestyle Distributors have set an October release date for the indie comedy “Motherhood,” from iDeal Partners Film Fund and Killer Films. Directed by Katherine Dieckmann, this comedy stars Uma Thurman, Minnie Driver and Anthony Edwards.
The movie centers around a pitiful mother of two’s attempt to prepare for her daughter’s quickly-approaching sixth birthday party. Along the way, this troubled mother is forced to contend with a massive series of unexpected urban challenges. This picture had its world premiere at Sundance this year. Film not yet rated.
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The cast of Greek gods for the fantasy adventure Percy Jackson have come forth with Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan
and Sean Bean to play Medusa, Chiron and Zeus, respectively. Kevin McKidd (Poseidon) and Melina Kanakerides (Athena) are also joining the celestial bunch in the film to be directed by Chris Columbus.
More roles need to be filled which are Aries, Hades and Persephone. Logan Lerman and Brandon Jackson have already signed on to be the stars.
The godly story focuses on Poseidon’s 12-year-old half-human son (Lerman), who embarks on a quest across modern-day America to save his mother, return Zeus’ stolen lightning bolt and prevent a deadly war between the gods.
Filming starts next month in Vancouver and a February 2010 release date.
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Uma Thurman is the main focus in this recent The Accidental Husband trailer.
Thurman is one of my favorite actresses, and Morgan was fantastic in P.S. I Love You.
The comedy, love story focus is on New York firefighter Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who had no idea his seemingly idyllic life was about to go up in smoke – especially as the unwitting, second-hand recipient of advice from famed love expert and radio host Dr. Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman). Dr. Lloyd learns that sometimes even an expert in love needs a second opinion…
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“The Accidental Husband” is about a New York firefighter Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) had no idea his seemingly idyllic life was about to go up in smoke – especially as the unwitting, second-hand recipient of advice from famed love expert and radio host Dr. Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman).One day he is a happy, go-lucky guy looking forward to a life with his soon-to-be-bride. The next thing you know, his fiancée Sophia (Justina Machado) is seeking couples counseling on the radio from Dr. Lloyd. The no-nonsense, ever practical Dr. Lloyd questions Sophia’s concept of romantic love and advises her to break their engagement, which she swiftly does. But when Patrick and his computer-savvy neighbor decide to give Dr. Lloyd a taste of her own medicine and “accidentally” join them in holy matrimony – something that doesn’t go over too well with her fiancée (played by Colin Firth) — it isn’t long before they learn that sometimes even an expert in love needs a second opinion…
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