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Ellen Barkin

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

Ellen Barkin

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Ellen Barkin is saying that movies often show mothers as either perfect and flawless or completely negative, without showing the complex reality in between. She feels that films don’t honestly represent the true, mixed experiences of being a mother, which she wishes were shown more.

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