Though it occasionally veers into unnecessary melodrama, Mother and Child benefits from a stellar cast and writer-director Rodrigo Garcia's finely detailed, bravely unsentimental script.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Rodrigo Garcia -
Producer -
Lisa Falcone , Julie Lynn -
Screenwriter -
Rodrigo Garcia -
Distributor -
Sony Pictures Classics -
Production Co -
Mockingbird Pictures -
Rating -
R (Language|Brief Nudity|Sexuality) -
Genre -
Drama -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
May 7, 2010, Limited -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Apr 16, 2012 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$1.1M -
Runtime -
2h 6m
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