Mother Knows Best

Patricia Arquette plays a mum determined to be part of her adult son’s life in comedy Otherhood

- Emma Bullimore, Adam Tanswell

Three mums, miffed when their grown-up sons don’t call them on Mother’s Day, decide to do something about it in Netflix’s new comedy film Otherhood.

The long-time friends – Gillian (Patricia Arquette), Carol (Angela Bassett) and Helen (Felicity Huffman) – drive to New York to pay their offspring a surprise visit.

Arquette, 51, who won a Golden Globe for prison drama Escape at Dannemora and has been nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of a mother with Munchausen syndrome by proxy in The Act, tells us more…

Did Otherhood make a welcome change from your more recent roles?