| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hush_25.jpg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:It ''can'' be awkward visiting prospective mothers-in-law.]] |
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| 4 | A New York couple, Helen (Creator/GwynethPaltrow) and Jackson (Johnathon Schaech), go to visit Jackson's mother (Creator/JessicaLange in a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward-nominated role) in Kentucky. As you may have gathered from the poster, the prospective-mother-in-law hasn't far from [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Mom]] in mindset. |
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| 6 | It's basically a big-screen ''LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek''. |
| 7 | !!Tropes found in this work: |
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| 9 | * ClingyJealousGirl: It's not very long whatsoever after meeting Helen that Martha stars to display obvious signs of jealousy towards her relationship to Jackson. |
| 10 | * DamselInDistress: Helen for a lot of the movie. |
| 11 | * DarkSecret: Jackson blames himself for his father's death when he was a boy. [[spoiler: He's innocent; it was his mother.]] |
| 12 | * ADeadlyAffair: [[spoiler: Jackson's father was killed by his wife when he found out about her infidelity - and she framed her son for it as a way of keeping him tied to her apron strings.]] |
| 13 | * EvilMatriarch: Hoo boy: [[spoiler: she basically orchestrates an attack on a pregnant Helen to get Helen and Jackson to move in with her as part of her aims get her hands on her son and her baby.]] |
| 14 | * MyBelovedSmother: Jackson's mother ''really'' wants her son and his impending child to stay in her life. [[spoiler: And she's willing to resort to murder to do it.]] |
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