After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
The Good Mother is one of the most confused and conflicted serious movies in a long time -- a film that feels great passion about its subject matter but has no idea what it wants to say or how to say it.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Even shackled to banalities, Keaton has the power to amaze.
– Hal Hinson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
One more nail in the coffin of the 60s.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
For all its potential to challenge and disturb, The Good Mother is finally no more wrenching than a placid Maine landscape on a summer day.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
fresh:
The traumatic subject matter of a child custody fight is handled with restraint and intelligence in The Good Mother.