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MOST MEMORABLE MOMS

May 1, 2016

Moms have it all – the love, the hate, and the unshakable belief that they're always right. Whether encouraging, enabling, or just plain enjoyable, here are our picks for Most Memorable Moms.

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Kathy Bates as Delores Claiborne

Delores Claiborne, 1995

Director: Taylor Hackford
Screenplay: Tony Gilroy

Kathy Bates wins first place, hands-down, for a performance reaffirming that a mother will do anything to protect her daughter – even murder.
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Dolores Claiborne: "If you wanna know what kind of life a person had, just look at their hands."


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Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce, 1945

Director: Michael Curtiz
Screenplay: Ranald MacDougall

Joan sparkles in this black-and-white Oscar jewel about a misguided mom and her love for a thankless cur of a child.
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Ida: "Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."


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Juanita Moore as Annie Johnson 

Imitation of Life, 1959

Director: Douglas Sirk

Screenplay: Elanor Griffin/Allan Scott
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Heartbreaking protrayal of a devoted mother who is helpless in the face of her daughter's self-hatred.
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Annie: "How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?"


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John Travolta as Edna Turnblad

Hairspray, 2007

Director: Adam Shankman
Screenplay: Leslie Dixon
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​Moms don't come any brighter than this wallflower who busts out of her dress and dull life in this wonderful remake of the John Water's film classic.


Wilbur Turnblad: [to Tracy] "This is America, babe, you gotta think big to be big."
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Edna Turnblad: "Big ain't the problem in this family, Wilbur."


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Halle Berry as Khaila Richards and
Jessica Lange as Margaret Lewin


Losing Isaiah, 1995

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Screenplay: Naomi Foner
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Halle Berry and Jessica Lange tussle with eachother and tug at our heartstrings as a pair of mothers fighting for the same child.

Margaret Lewin: "Any dog can give birth. That doesn't make it a mother."
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Khaila Richards: "Are you calling me an animal? If you think you're going to just take my baby from me, you got another thing coming, lady!"


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Paz Vega as Flor Moreno

Spanglish, 2004

Director/Screenplay: James L. Brooks

Paz Vega's delicate yet determined struggle wins everyone over in this film. She plays an immigrant mother hammering away at the seductive assimilation of her daughter to a truly foreign culture.
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Flor Moreno: "Is what you want for yourself to become someone very different than me?"


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Nathan Lane as Albert Goldman

The Birdcage, 1996

Director: Mike Nichols
Screenplay: Elaine May
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Nathan Lane steals the show and our hearts in this parable about staying true to your values - and your sexual orientation!

Albert: "Maybe it is too much to introduce me as his mother on the first visit. Could you tell him I was a relative who dropped in? Val's uncle, Uncle Al!"
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Armand: "Oh, what's the point? You'd be Val's gay Uncle Al."


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Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams

The Addams Family, 1991

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenplay: Caroline Thompson
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Angelica Huston proves that Harriet Nelson isn't the only apple-pie mom...well, sort of!

Morticia: "Children, what are you doing?"

Wednesday: "I'm going to electrocute him."
Morticia: "But we're late for the charity auction."
Wednesday: "But, Mother..."
Morticia: "I said no."
Pugsley: "Pleeaaaase?"
Morticia: "Oh, all right."


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Toni Collette as Tara Gregson

​United States of Tara, 2009

Created/Written: Diablo Cody

Showtime Cable Network


This cable winner examines what we already know about moms, that they're pretty multi-faceted!

Tara:( as Alice) "Kate, I know you aren't fond of me, but I'm concerned about your development as a young woman, just like your mother Tara. You're promiscuous. You aren't guarding your flower."

Tara: (as 'T') "Dude, I have been digging around in your closet for an hour and I can't fuckin' get to Narnia."
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Tara: (as Buck) "What do you want to watch on the idiot-box? We got UFC or porn."


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Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford

Mommie Dearest, 1981

Director: Frank Perry
Screenplay: Robert Getchell
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Faye Dunaway's kitschy take on the late, great Joan Crawford may border on the hysterical, but don't we all know a mom like this one?

Joan Crawford: "Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to? Why can't you treat me like I would be treated by any stranger on the street?"
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Christina: "Because I am NOT one of your fans."


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