Top 5 Mother’s Day Movies

While arriving at her house with chocolates, flowers, and maybe a trip to her favorite upscale dining establishment will likely suffice, how cool would it be if you and your mom (or your child) were to sit down together and take in an inspirational movie (or two) celebrating motherhood in all of its glory?

The following list of applicably themed titles which (hopefully) presents some level of variety, and will provide a great preamble (or nightcap) to celebrate this most special of American-based holidays.

Happy viewing and Happy Mother’s Day to all!

‘The Sound of Music’ (1965)

Robert Wise (“West Side Story”) won his second pair of Best Picture and Best Director Oscars within a four-year span for this landmark adaptation of the 1959 Rogers and Hammerstein stage musical. The highest-grossing film of 1965 (and number one at the box office for 30 weeks), it tells the (mostly) true story of the Austrian von Trapp family whose recently widowed father and naval officer Georg (Christopher Plummer) hires nanny Maria (Julie Andrews) to tutor his seven children.