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Helicopter Mom
Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
11 March 1968, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
10 June 1964, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 April 1994
6 April 1989, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
28 January 1972, New Jersey, USA
5 July 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 May 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
17 March 1955, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
8 March 1991, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
24 September 1962, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
12 May 1988, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
April 21, 2015
An alternately humorous and sobering cautionary tale chronicling the woes of an exasperated kid smothered by a well-meaning mom in an era of omnipresent parenting.April 23, 2015
Director Salome Breziner is too permissive with her star, but "Helicopter Mom" retains some heart and meaning as it struggles to breathe.May 01, 2015
Comedy about overly involved mom has a little edge.April 24, 2015
With such an onslaught of misunderstanding of what being queer means and what the gay lifestyle is, the film flounders.April 23, 2015
Breziner's disjointed film is rife with storylines that go nowhere and characters that briefly appear and disappear without explanation.April 23, 2015
A forced comedy that mines uneasy humor from stale stereotypes.