What is the student trying to say or find ?

Is there a particular focus?

Mothers?  Becoming a mother?

Self-sacrifice?  Devotion?  Cruelty?  Oddness?

A million possibilities.  In no particular order, with no particular theme.

I Remember Mama
To Each His Own
Mommie Dearest
Mother
Stella Dallas
Stella
Mask
Penny Serenade
Aliens
Requiem for a Dream
Baby Boom
The Good Mother
Not Without My Daughter
The Old Maid
Terms of Endearment
The Joy Luck Club
Double Happiness
Serial Mom
Imitations of Life
Stepmom
In the Bedroom
The Graduate
Rosemary's Baby
Spanking the Monkey
White Oleander
Postcards from the Edge
Mrs. Winterbourne
The Deep End
The Deep End of the Ocean
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Pocketful of Miracles
Tumbleweeds
Anywhere But Here
For Keeps
Woman of the Year
The Grifters
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Claire Dolan
One True Thing
A Cry in the Dark
A.I.
Igby Goes Down


For consideration:
Kramer vs. Kramer
Mr. Mom
The Champ

Non-American
Secrets and Lies
Every Mother's Son
Muriel's Wedding
Alias Betty
Hideous Kinky

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