Motherhood

Mayor Rudy Giuliani turfed the begging winos out of New York City, only for them to be replaced (so one infers from the films Julie & Julia and Motherhood ) by blogging whiners. Eliza, the central character of Motherhood (Uma Thurman in horn-rimmed glasses), believes she's betrayed her Ivy League promise by marriage and sharing a cramped flat with husband and two small children. So she's attempting to achieve purpose and fame through her blog. Eliza is a Greenwich Village version of Virginia Woolf's self-obsessed Mrs Dalloway, living in a stream of consciousness as she goes through the day shopping, meeting disagreeable New Yorkers and preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party. Every few minutes she blogs for attention: you can imagine other housewives looking at their screens saying: "Three-Ten, it's Uma!". This trite, tiresome movie is made even worse by the husband's financial windfall that solves the family's problems.