An R-rated comedy about the trials of motherhood tops the DVD releases for the week of Aug. 6.
“Babes”: Written by and starring “Broad City’s” Ilana Glazer, and marking the feature directing debut of Pamela Adlon (“Better Things”), this movie follows a single woman who gets pregnant and turns to her best friend, a married mother of two, for help.
“Working with the merest hint of plot — the unexpected pregnancy of single, free-spirit Eden (Glazer) causes some tension in her longtime friendship with Dawn (Michelle Buteau), who has just had her second child — ‘Babes’ is less interested in the traditional narrative beats than in blowing up this culture’s baby-bump fetishing but biology-denying notions of motherhood,” writes Los Angeles Times critic Mary McNamara in her review. “It’s about time we had a movie that understands the basic truth of motherhood: You will often be too tired to cry, but you’re never too tired to laugh.”
Also new on DVD
“Broken Law”: Irish crime drama centered on two brothers on opposite sides of the law, one a police officer and the other an ex-con in trouble again.
