[NEWS] 'Mother's Day' the Movie starring Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson

article by: Josh Duboff

VANITY FAIR magazine
"What do actresses Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts, and Jennifer Aniston have in come? The fact that this will be their first time collaborating together! From the director who brought us ensemble holiday films (2010) Valentine's Day and (2011) New Year's Eve comes director Gary Marshall's, Mother's Day. June 30, 2015 it was announced that Marshall will be gifting us with a third holiday ensemble flick franchise. For those unfamiliar, these films feature a glut of A- and B- listers, interweaving storylines tied to the holiday in question, and an A+ option for Sunday afternoon movie-going when you're at home visiting your parents. It will in the least necessary log line of all time, tell the tales of several mothers as they title holiday approaches, and already has several stars attached. Theses stars include actress Julia Roberts (a Marshall veteran; the two have collaborated in the past 1990 Pretty Woman, 1999 Runaway Bride, and 2010 Valentine's Day), actress Jennifer Aniston, actress Kate Hudson, and actor/comedian Jason Sudeikis. Let’s guess what plot lines these four are going to be wrapped up in come—whenever this movie comes out (May 2016?).

(2010) director Gary Marshall with actress Julia Roberts the the L.A. premiere of Valentine's Day

Julia Roberts: Amber (Roberts) owns an art gallery, has three adorable kids, a doting husband (actor/comedian Paul Rudd), an Upper East Side brownstone: she would seem, as they say, to have it all. But then, on her way back home from Whole Foods one night, she gets a call from her mom (Ellen Burstyn): “I know we haven’t talked in a decade,” she says, “but I’m sick, Am.” Amber drops her paper bag on the middle of Lexington Avenue, avocados tumbling into the street. The next day she drives up to Vermont to see her mother, and the two reminisce, dance to Rod Stewart, and even, eventually, finally, talk about what happened at dinner at Thanksgiving in 2005. 

Jennifer Aniston: Mickey (Aniston) is a Los Angeles yoga teacher with a string of no-good ex-boyfriends. She’s sworn off love (“I’ve sworn off love,” she tells her best friend Helen [Judy Greer] over green juices.) But then one day Riley (actor Liam Hemsworth) shows up at her yoga class, and she can’t help but take notice (“You wanna downward his dog, don’t you?!” Helen squeals over a glass of chardonnay.) Riley asks Mickey for a private session, which leads to a private session, and, six weeks later, Mickey finds out she’s pregnant. “Helen, what do I do?!?” she shrieks. “I can’t have a baby with a baby!” Helen puts down her frozen yogurt: “Mickey, not only are you going to have a baby with that baby, it’s going to be the most genetically gifted, flexible, sinewy baby the earth has ever seen.”

(2010) Valentine's Day

Kate Hudson: Vicki (Hudson) and Nicki (actress Jennifer Connelly)—they know, they’ve heard all the jokes about their names before!—have been trying to adopt for three years, to no avail, as their offbeat lawyer, Ron (actor Steve Buscemi), has delivered bad news at every turn. “Maybe this is a sign that it isn’t meant to be, that we aren’t fit to be mothers!” Vicki cries, taking a prepared meal out of the microwave one night. Vicki, exasperated, buys a one-way ticket to Paris (“I just need . . . to get away,” she tells her assistant, Jade [actress Emma Roberts].) She heads home to tell Nicki, only to find Ron waiting on her doorstep. “I have some news,” he says, with a toothy smile.

(2011) New Year's Eve

Jason Sudeikis: Mitch (Sudeikis) and Tab (actress Rose Byrne) thought having a baby in a crammed Brooklyn one-bedroom would be a piece of cake. “Like, Snooki has two kids, doesn’t she?” Mitch said, finishing off a piece of cheesecake. “Yeah, right, Snooki!” Tab laughed. But it’s not as easy as they expected. Dill is one, and they still haven’t figured it out: Tab’s late on three manuscripts she has to edit, Mitch botches a major presentation for that important meeting with that key executive. “I didn’t want to even bring this up,” Tab says one night, as Mitch watches the game, “but what if . . . my mother moved in . . . to help us out?” Mitch winces violently. “And by ‘what if,’ I mean, I already bought her plane ticket, and she’s on her way and—” The doorbell rings, and Mitch, instinctively, flees to the bedroom. Tab opens the door to find her mother (actress Helen Mirren), who shouts, “Hello, my dear, where is the little reptile? And my word, you’re living in a Game of Thrones dungeon, what is this place!??! You look positively malnourished, and not in the good way. And where is that husband of yours, I bought him one of those FitBot watches—I am going to get the dolt in shape . . . someone around here has to.”