Moms' Night Out
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Andrew Erwin Jon Erwin |
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| Written by | Jon Erwin Andrea Gyertson Nasfell |
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| Music by | Marc Fantini Steffan Fantini |
| Cinematography | Kristopher Kimlin |
| Edited by | Andrew Erwin Jonathan Olive |
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| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $10.5 million |
Moms' Night Out is an American Christian-based comedy film directed by Andrew Erwin and Jon Erwin, and written by Jon Erwin and Andrea Gyertson Nasfell. The film stars Sarah Drew, Sean Astin, Patricia Heaton and Trace Adkins. The film was released on May 9, 2014, in 1,044 theaters.
Allyson Field is a young mother who is having a most unhappy Mother's Day. At first glance, it seems she has a life that many would envy. She is happily married to her loving husband Sean and has three lively, adorable children. However, as Allyson types on her "mommy blog", she is beset with anxiety and feelings of unworthiness. She describes herself as a "freaky clean freak" who actually sees beauty in a padded cell. She has paranoid delusions about her children getting salmonella and child welfare workers taking them away. She realizes that she is living her simple dream of being a decent wife and mother she feels she is a horrible person because of her inner demons. Allyson finds comfort in her two best friends Sondra and Izzy. Sondra is a pastor's wife, the pillar of the community, whom Allyson describes as her Gandolf and Doctor Phil. Sondra has a rebellious teenage daughter Zoey who acutely feels the stigma of being a pastor's daughter. Izzy is Allyson's high school friend who has twins and is married to the lovable but bumbling Marco who has an irrational fear of bikers and small children. Allyson is deeply affected by a sermon that Sondra's husband gives about the high calling of motherhood and the sacrifices that are entailed. Sean tells his overstressed wife that she needs to have a night out for herself and she and her two girlfriends plan one starting with dinner at a fancy Chinese restaurant. However, the evening is a disaster from start to finish. Sean's loopy half sister Bridget comes to dinner and asks Ally to babysit her son Phoenix. Sean agrees to shoulder the responsibility himself along with Marco and his friend Kevin who loves video games and hates kids. In many ways Sean and Kevin are arrested adolescents. Ally and her friends arrive at the restaurant only to find their reservation has been lost which results in Ally having a mini meltdown and throwing away their cellphones. The three friends go bowling and Sondra tries to comfort the frazzled Ally telling her that God is always with her. The evening degenerates with further accidents and misunderstanding as the babysitters take the children to a video arcade with results in a trip to the emergency room and the men inadvertently taking the woman's van. Things go from bad to worse when Bridget, realizes that her infant son, Phoenix, is missing. The four travel across the city looking for the child which culminates in all four women ending up in a jail cell and Sondra being tased. The film ends with everyone being happily reunited and Ally typing a happy blog proclaiming that while her life is stressed and crazy it is also beautiful. She finds the true meaning of a video that Sondra sent her showing an Eagle caring for it's young. Sean reminds her of the old saying that "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world".
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