Surviving My Mother (movie)

On Tuesday, November 6, 2007, I went to see the film Surviving My Mother. This film was written by the same writer(s) of Mambo Italiano, and directed by the same dude.

The story is about a family, where there was a grandmother who was dying of cancer. There was a mother (Ellen David), a daughter (Caroline Dhavernas), and a husband (Colin Mochrie). On the outside, they seemed like a typical family, but as you watched the movie, you realized that they had so many issues. And the movie was about them finding out about these issues, and dealing with them together as a family.

There were lots of scandals in this family... The daughter was a really sexually active female, who got pleasure from teasing men. She was responsible for breaking up a marriage of someone, and she has been with so many men. And we had the mother who was dealing with a lot of emotional distress because she spent the last couple of years taking care of grandma, and she quit her job to do so.

And then you throw in the romantic love interest, the daughter who falls in love with a priest who couldn't quite keep his chastity vow.

A fun movie, but I preferred Mambo Italiano. I know I cannot really compare the two, but I can state that I preferred the latter. Granted of course, there were stars that were in this movie that were also in Mambo Italiano. For example, the mother was the angry lesbian, and the nurse that helped take care of grandma was the femmy gay man who introduced himself first in the Gay Helpline circle.