Single Moms Club Rave Review Portfolio

LaSonya Burns

April 2, 2015

Eng. 111

Rave

My Life Without The Extras

When my favorite director, screenplay, and movie writer, Tyler Perry, wrote and directed the movie entitled The Single Mom's Club, I couldn't have been more elated.  He took the very aspect of my life that gives me the most heartache and turned it into something I could find comfort in. The Single Moms Club, has all the big emotions we've come to expect from Perry's value infused, sappy melodramas.  The movie entered into theatres May 9, 2014, and onto DVD July 22, 2014.   Since the DVD hit the shelf, this movie has gotten me through some very tough times.

The moms are an eclectic lot. Jan (Wendi McLendon-Covey) is a stern, all-business type trying to make partner where she works but not without the snotty attitude of her little trouble-making daughter.  In one of the film's many coincidences, she rejected a story from May (Nia Long) for being too hip.   May is a journalist and aspiring author, trying to guide her troubled son Rick through the rough waters of having a father that does what he wants but at the expense of everyone else.  Then there's Esperanza (Zulay Henao), who wants to cohabitate with her new man but is unwilling to test the shark infested, financial support waters that her ex-husband has surrounded her with.  Now, the opposite of  Esperanza is Hillary (Amy Smart). She's recovering from a nasty divorce from her lawyer husband, who has enough people in “high places” to get an undeserved reduction in the amount of alimony he pays.  This forces her to let go of her Spanish  maid who spends more time with her three kids than she does.  Lastly there's Lytia (Cocoa Brown), a straight-talking waitress and mother of five who’s youngest earned a scholarship to the exclusive private school in the area.

The main plot for this movie is the trial and tribulations single mothers go through and how they deal with them on their own but when the five single mother’s children face expulsion because of things they did at or to the school (i.e. tagging, smoking) the five mothers must agree to organize the school's upcoming dance and fundraiser. Although they range from upper professional to fast-food worker, the women find they have one thing in common:  that in being a single mom there is a need for a listening ear and a shoulder to cry on.  They form an inseparable bond that is complicated when a tragic situation arises.