When theater major Leah, brings home the special someone in her life to meet her mom, Julie, the family is met with a surprise when Pearl comes to the door. Julie tries to embrace the idea of Leah’s new love interest, but she can’t shake the feeling that something is very wrong. Julie’s suspicions lead to a startling discovery about Pearl that puts Leah in serious danger. Will Julie be able to save her daughter from an eternity of heartache before it’s too late?
The movie is much ado about nothing, feeling desperately thin and pointless. At first promising campy fun, it's soon simply mystifying, then misguided, gross and finally tiresome in its look-at-me-ness.
– Verne Gay,
Newsday,
15 Jun 2016
fresh:
It's high camp, and whoever at the network green-lit it -- assuming, of course, they were in on the joke -- is brilliant.
– Katie Rife,
AV Club,
17 Jun 2016
fresh:
Mother's great feat is that it's a movie that manages to be both exploitative and progressive.
– Sam Adams,
Rolling Stone,
20 Jun 2016
rotten:
It's a bold choice to devote a solid minute of the running time to the famed "Macbeth" monologue including the line, "a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing." Bold, and like the rest of the movie, a little too self-aware.