With Mother’s Day approaching, Sandy, a divorced mother of two sons, finds out her ex has remarried – a very young woman. Her friend Jesse, who is married to an Indian man, and her lesbian sister decide to face their racist, homophobe parents, not knowing that they are on their way for a surprise visit. Adopted and a mother in her own right, Kristin tries to heal her wounds by visiting her mother, a television celebrity. The father of two daughters, Bradley prepares to deal with Mother’s Day for the first time after the death of his wife…

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There was Valentine’s Day, with Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Jamie Foxx and Julia Roberts. There was Happy New Year, with Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Zac Efron and Halle Berry. Now there is Mother’s Day, with Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts – and that’s it in terms of stars. Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall warms up another helping of an already stale recipe: with cliché heaped upon cliché, stereotype following stereotype, this embarrassment of an unimaginative movie drags on for two hours with calculated low-rent laughs inserted here and there. Aniston and Hudson have long been overrated, and the few inside jokes (the Notting Hill wig, the fork “homage” to Pretty Woman) can’t save this vapid production designed to cash in on an already lame franchise.