Mother's Day (2010)

Who could ever forget Rebecca De Mornay in a movie classic "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"? 

A truly scary psychological thriller with excellent story and of course De Mornay was brilliant - but than, we never heard from her. She got married to Leonard Cohen and if she worked at all, it did not make big waves internationally because we would find out about it. It almost became one of those forgotten names, you know, whatever happened to her?

Well, she is back in a truly scary movie called "The Mother's Day" - watched it with the biggest pleasure last night.

One can clearly tell that the whole movie is built around her character because she is the main focus of everything - the movie even fails to get our full attention until De Mornay appears. And its strange why exactly she is so spooky because she still is a very beautiful woman with expressive face, aged but beautiful. And for the most of the movie she is soft spoken and well behaved but we KNOW she is extremely dangerous so its thrilling to simply watch.

About the movie: a group of dangerous bank robbers escapes the police and seeks refugee in their own family house. They are all brothers and one of them is lethally wounded. The problem is, they were in prison so long that they have no idea that house is not theirs anymore - it has been sold and new owners are in there with their friends, celebrating and having a nice friendly evening with dinner and music. When sadistic brothers burst in the house everything gets very dangerous and brutal - things get out of control and the only person who can solve this terrible mess is "mother" who is arriving soon. From the moment De Mornay walks in the house we are aware that her boys are nothing compared to mother who is truly dangerous mind - she manipulates everybody in truly Machiavellian way to make them do what she wants to and there is excellent line where she says "It's important to know where you stand - and than to make people go in that direction" (or something like that). Nobody in the house is match for her and she is truly scary. At certain point things get a little bit predictable - we kind of know what will happen at the end and that all kinds of gruesome killings will take place. As much as I love De Mornay and understand this is kind of homage to her earlier role, I still wish she an escapes one-dimensional roles like this because it does put her in a certain box, I know for sure she is far more talented than to be forever remember as psychotic. Unfortunately this is what movie industry has to offer her. I can easily imagine her in kind of all-covering roles Meryl Streep plays, from nuns to comedienne to serious drama. Imagine De Mornay in "Bridges of Madison County" or "Doubt"!