Did any of you bitches ever see The Mommy Market aka Trading Moms (1994) with Sissy Spacek? Three kids wish their mother away and try out three other different moms purchased from the mommy market. It’s all designed to make the kids realize what a treasure of a mother they really have.
Sissy Spacek plays all three iterations of mothers from the mommy market. First is a high maintenance snobby chain smoking fur wearing French caricature of a woman who only cares about appearances, second is a butch lesbian wilderness woman who will stop at nothing to be the best at everything even at the expensive of the kids, and the third version of their mother is an absolutely insane circus performance queen who must be on drugs.
Maureen Stapleton plays the hippie granola witch who gives the children the magic to find a new mother.
It’s campy as hell and really shows the acting chops of Sissy Spacek. I’m not sure any other actress could have pulled off four different roles.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 21, 2023 12:52 AM |
Here’s the trailer. I had it on VHS as a kid.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 20, 2023 2:03 AM |
The trailers narrator makes it sound so boring.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 20, 2023 2:30 AM |
I came from zis mommi market! Oh wait, I come from mail order market for models with specialty girl on girl action
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 20, 2023 2:44 AM |
Did you find this piece of cinema in the VHS bin at Walmart, or at Dollar Tree, OP?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 20, 2023 2:55 AM |
I want to see the hilarious belated sequel, The Daddy Market, starring Ben Barnes.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 20, 2023 2:57 AM |
The book was very popular when I was in elementary school in the 60s. I remember liking it a lot.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 20, 2023 4:07 AM |
I haven’t been this disturbed since I found 60 copies of Hallow Man in a Blockbuster dumpster.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 20, 2023 4:11 AM |
I always forget she was actually a very pretty woman when she wore makeup and styled her hair.
I always think of her as plain Carrie White. I never think of her in any other role.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 20, 2023 4:17 AM |
Her hair extensions look like shit in that poster. Having said that, man I miss the '90s.
What's Chlumsky up to these days?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 20, 2023 5:08 AM |
R12 She was on Veep all 7 seasons, ended in 2019. I think she was nominated for an Emmy every season.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 20, 2023 6:27 AM |
I know, I meant aside from Veep, which I'm sure we all watched her in.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 20, 2023 6:28 AM |
When I think of Sissy Spacek, I always think of Coal Miners Daughter and In the Bedroom, Tom Wilkinson was great in that, too. I've never watched OP's movie, but ill check it out tomorrow.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 20, 2023 7:33 AM |
Thanks Op, I watched it tonight.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 20, 2023 10:32 AM |
I saw this years ago and I remember it feeling very “off,” like it was filmed in Eastern Europe on the cheap or something. The video quality was terrible - looked like an episode of Tales From The Darkside. I’d never heard of it before seeing it on the video store shelf. Did it actually play in theaters?
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 20, 2023 11:50 AM |
I have memories of this film similar to those of R17. I only remember bits and pieces of it, but it was a very strange movie, almost off-putting, akin to something like "The Peanut Butter Solution".
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 20, 2023 12:03 PM |
The boy who played Jeremy ended up looking somewhat like Pete Buttigieg.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 20, 2023 12:13 PM |
R19 I see he’s not wearing the earring.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 20, 2023 5:20 PM |
I only lasted 30 minutes, but Sissy was a revelation as the haughty glamorous mother, especially since she's so identified with mousy Midwestern types. She would have been a fantastic Cruella de Vil.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 21, 2023 12:35 AM |
Heh R21 one of the kids joked about her being Cruella de Vil.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 21, 2023 12:52 AM |
