Fresh
The traumatic subject matter of a child custody fight is handled with restraint and intelligence in The Good Mother.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Good Mother
Can a court determine how we should live, how we should love, how we should raise our children? Now Anna must prove that she is the Good Mother.
1988 · 1h 44m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Leonard Nimoy
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
55%
Tomatometer
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
Rotten
One more nail in the coffin of the 60s.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Even shackled to banalities, Keaton has the power to amaze.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Rotten
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
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