Mother's Day (2016)

As Mother's Day approaches, a group of disparate parents must come to terms with their relationship to their own parents and children: A divorced mom (Jennifer Aniston) whose ex-husband (Timothy Olyphant) has recently remarried. Two sisters with bigoted parents (Margo Martindale, Robert Pine), one (Kate Hudson) married to an Indian (Aasif Mandvi), the other (Sarah Chalke) in a same sex relationship. A widower (Jason Sudeikis) raising two daughters while still mourning his wife (Jennifer Garner). A young mother (Britt Robertson) with abandonment issues who refuses to marry the father (Jack Whitehall) of her baby. Flat as a pancake! I felt sorry for the poor actors (who've all proven their worth elsewhere) who have nothing to work with. They keep spinning their wheels in the hope that something will click but except for two very brief (like seconds) moments, it never does. Ironically, the dreaded gag reel which plays over the film's end credits is much funnier than anything that's in the movie. Maybe they should have tossed the script away and let the actors improvise. Poor Julia Roberts is saddled with the most disfiguring wig worn by a movie star since Stanwyck in DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Directed by Garry Marshall. With Hector Elizondo, Jon Lovitz, Cameron Esposito and Shay Mitchell.