Photo EssayWhat To Watch With Your Jewish Mom On Mother’s Day

For the Mom Who’s Not A Regular Mom, She’s a “Cool Mom”: “Snatched” Why: First reason—Goldie Hawn in her first film role in fifteen years. Second reason—Amy Schumer. Third reason—the two of them together. Hawn and Schumer are mother and daughter under hilarious circumstances, and their movie is in theaters this weekend, just in time for you and your mother to get closer over highly explicit sight gags. Image by youtube

Photo EssayWhat To Watch With Your Jewish Mom On Mother’s Day

By Jenny Singer May 13, 2017

Breakfast in bed, scenic walks, high tea, and family therapy appointments are all delightful ways to spend Mother’s Day. But after the tea has been drank and the co-pay has been submitted, here are our picks for the best movies and TV shows to bond over on Mother’s Day.

Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.

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