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‘SNL’: Matt Damon Stars in Your Mother’s Favorite Movie

Rolling Stone·William Vaillancourt·6 months ago
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Damon plays the doting husband in a Mother's Day movie "completely devoid of conflict, suspense and dramatic tension"

Saturday Night Live host Matt Damon was cast as the adoring husband in Mom , an entirely inoffensive movie where nothing bad happens—something that mothers everywhere will enjoy.

Ahead of Mother’s Day, the movie’s trailer opens with an empty nester mom (Ashley Padilla) in a big house being visited by her three adult children who have an announcement she loves to hear: they’re all moving back in.

The movie is “completely devoid of conflict, suspense and dramatic tension,” the trailer’s voiceover says. For instance, when a daughter gets worried that a big pickleball tournament is happening at the same time as her baby shower, mom isn’t concerned all.

“They’re on different days,” she says, sipping coffee unbothered.

The voiceover continues: “Moms are the hardest-working people in the world.…

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