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ON FILM: Movie Moms

  There is no love like a mother's love, and on this show, Charles talks with film enthusiast & collector Jay Duncan about the famous mothers in cinema.  Jay is also director of the Sunset Film Society which is screening one of the great all-time mother-centric films, "Mildred Pierce" (1945), on Sunday, May 17 at noon, at Ardovino's Desert Crossing http://www.sunsetfilmsociety.org/.

Charles & Jay share their recommended list of mom movies under various categories:

BALANCING ACT: Erin Brokovitch...As Good as It Gets...The Incredibles...Imitation of Life...Mrs Miniver...I Remember Mama...Aliens...Terms of Endearment...Mildred Pierce...Stella Dallas...The Thin Man.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE: Juno...Knocked Up...Philomena.

SURROGATE MOMS:  Aliens...Snow White & the Seven Dwarves...The Blind Side...Auntie Mame...Raising Arizona.

MOTHERHOOD - THE HORROR: Psycho...Carrie...Rosemary's Baby...The Manchurian Candidate..The Babadook.

Aired May 16, 2015.

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