What Would Mom Do Podcast?

Want to hear Stacie and Sara go on a million rants including but not limited to Spider-Man (all iterations…Stacie loves Toby McGuire and hear Sara shame her!), Lord of the Rings, Marvel, the Royal Family, and our new Hereditary…Dick Van Dyke!

This week, Sara and Stacie are at it again to judge the mom and mom figures in the 1999 dark comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous!

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The battle between the good and the bad is about to get ugly.

Drop Dead Gorgeous is a 1999 American comedy mockumentary film directed by Michael Patrick Jann written by Lona Williams and starring Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Brittany Murphy, Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley, and Amy Adams in her film debut. It follows the contestants in a beauty pageant called the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pageant, held in the small fictional town of Mount Rose, Minnesota, in which various contestants die in suspicious ways.

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Hereditary has nothing on this GRIEF!

*Content warning talk of suicide*

This week, Sara and Stacie are at it again to judge the mom and mom figures in the 1980 drama Ordinary People.

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Some films you watch, others you FEEL

American family drama film directed by Robert Redford (in his directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Alvin Sargent based on the 1976 novel of the same name by Judith Guest. It stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton (in his film debut). The film follows the disintegration of an upper-middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the accidental death of one of their two sons and the attempted suicide of the other.

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This week, Sara and Stacie are at it again to judge the mom and mom figures in the 1995 sequel Grumpier Old Men!

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Still Yelling. Still Fighting. Still Ready For Love.

Things don't seem to change much in Wabasha County: Max and John are still fighting after 35 years, Grandpa still drinks, smokes, and chases women , and nobody's been able to catch the fabled "Catfish Hunter", a gigantic catfish that actually smiles at fishermen who try to snare it. Six months ago John married the new girl in town (Ariel), and people begin to suspect that Max might be missing something similar in his life. The only joy Max claims is left in his life is fishing, but that might change with the new owner of the bait shop.

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This week, Sara and Stacie judge the mom and mom figures in the 1993 Grumpy Old Men!

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The best of enemies until something came between them.

In Wabasha, Minnesota, retirees John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) are feuding next-door neighbors. Living alone, they spend their time ice fishing and pulling cruel practical jokes on each other, including John leaving a dead fish in Max’s truck. Their rivalry irritates their friend Chuck, owner of the town bait shop, and Max’s son Jacob, who is running for mayor. Dodging the attempts of IRS Agent Elliot Snyder to collect a serious debt, John supports his daughter Melanie when she separates from her husband Mike. John and Max both find themselves attracted to Ariel Truax (Ann-Margret), a free-spirited English professor who moves in across the street. Chuck has Thanksgiving dinner with Ariel, prompting John and Max to compete for her affections.

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This week, Sara and Stacie judge the mom and mom figures in the 1961 movie The Parent Trap.

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It's Strictly a Laugh Affair

Teenagers Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers (Hayley Mills) meet at Miss Inch's Summer Camp for Girls. Their alike appearance initially causes resentment and a rivalry in which they continually pull pranks on each other, ultimately disrupting a dance with a neighboring boys camp. As punishment, they must room together in the isolated "Serendipity" cabin and have all meals at the "Isolation Table" for the remainder of the camp season. They eventually overcome their mutual dislike, then discover they are identical twin sisters. Their parents, Mitchell "Mitch" Evers (Brian Keith) and Margaret "Maggie" McKendrick (Maureen O'Hara), divorced shortly after their birth, splitting physical custody between them. Eager to meet the parent they never knew, the twins decide to switch places by having the same haircut and undergoing a crash-course on each other's life.

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This week, Sara and Stacie judge the moms and their daughters in this weeks 1993 sensation The Joy Luck Club.

*Also Content warning there’s discussion on suicide and domestic violence*

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It didn’t have a tagline….instead I’ll give you this fun fact -
At the time the film was released, it was anticipated that Hollywood would begin to develop more films around the Asian experience, but this did not eventually happen. Flower Drum Song, released in 1961, was the first film to feature a majority Asian cast telling a contemporary Asian-American story. The Joy Luck Club (1993) was the second, a third of a century later, and the latest was released a quarter century later in 2018, Crazy Rich Asians.
Be better Hollywood and allow more diverse stories!

The Joy Luck Club (simplified Chinese: 喜福会; traditional Chinese: 喜福會; pinyin: Xǐ Fú Huì) is a 1993 American drama film about the relationships between Chinese-American women and their Chinese immigrant mothers. It was directed by Wayne Wang and stars Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, and Ming-Na Wen. The film is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Amy Tan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronald Bass. The film was produced by Bass, Tan, Wang and Patrick Markey while Oliver Stone served as an executive producer. Four older women, all Chinese immigrants living in San Francisco, meet regularly to play mahjong, eat, and tell stories. Each of these women has an adult Chinese-American daughter. The film reveals the hidden pasts of the older women and their daughters and how their lives are shaped by the clash of Chinese and American cultures as they strive to understand their family bonds and one another.

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This week, Sara and Stacie judge the mom and mom figures in the 2002 sleeper hit, My Big Fat Greek Wedding!

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Love is here to stay...so is her family.

Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba's, in Chicago. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy. But Toula is looking for more in life. Her mother convinces Gus to let her take some computer classes at college (making him think it's his idea). With those classes under her belt, she then takes over her aunt's travel agency (again making her father think it's his idea). She meets Ian Miller, a high school English teacher, WASP, and dreamboat she had made a fool of herself over at the restaurant; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. He has to learn to accept Ian; Ian has to learn to accept Toula's huge family, and Toula has to learn to accept herself.

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This week, Sara and Stacie judge the mom and mom figures in the movie Failure to Launch!

This movie broke up...check out min 27:33 to hear Stacie FAILURE to TALK! (get it)

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To leave the nest, some men just need a little push.

At 35, Tripp has an interesting job, a hip car, a passion for sailing, and a great house - trouble is, he lives with his parents. They want him out, so they hire Paula, an "interventionist," who has a formula in these cases: chance encounter, get him to ask her out, involve him in a trauma, meet his friends and get their nod, delay sex, have him teach her something, then launch him. It's worked up to now, but this gets complicated when Tripp thinks she's getting too serious and one of his pals is attracted to Paula's deadpan, semi-alcoholic roommate, who's plagued by a mockingbird. Too many secrets may scrub the launch, and what if Paula really likes him? Who can intervene then?

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This week, Sara and Stacie judge the mom figures in one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES Adventures in Babysitting!!!

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She thought babysitting was easy money - until she started hanging out with the Andersons.

This movie stars the gorgeous and perfectly cast Elizabeth Shue along with her gang of kinds Maria Brewton, Keith Googan, and Anthony Rapp who travel to “mean” streets of Chicago to pick up their friend and find out the city isn’t as mean as they thought.

Chris Parker (Shue) agrees to babysit after her boyfriend, Mike Todwell, stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, she settles down with three kids for a night of TV...and boredom. But when her frantic friend, Brenda, calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair raising adventures. Chris and the kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city, never imagining how terrifyingly funny their expedition will become.

Also please enjoy the array of beautiful 80s fashion as well and a cameo by a very sexy Vincent D’Onofrio as Thor?

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STOP! And Listen to this weeks What What Would Do Podcast

This week, Sara and Stacie judge the mom (and cop son) in the 1992 romp, STOP! Or My Mom Will Shoot.

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Detective Joe Bomowski's mom is in town for a visit. She did the laundry, washed the windows and scrubbed the floors. Now, she's gonna clean up the streets.

This movie stars Sylvester Stallone as a tough police sergeant who's mother, played by Golden Girl alum Estelle Getty, comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment.

I've never seen a movie have this much penis talk BY A MOTHER EVER! It's WEIRD!
Nonetheless is a fun romp seeing Stallone and Getty bicker while trying to solve a case. It's ridiculous!

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