You Both Are Wonderful Mother

Ben       : I think Issabel's pretty.
Jackie   : Yeah, I think she's pretty too... if you like big teeth.
Ben       : Mom?
Jackie   : Yes sweetie? 
Ben       : If you want me to hate her, I will.
(Ben, seven years old)

Did you ever think how to take care of children?

If you want to learn how to be a great mother, you can learn and take lessons from these two actors in this film, Issabel and Jackie. They have nothing in common one is the ideal mother, the other struggling to be any kind of mother until circumstances force them to share a family and put aside their mutual hostility for the sake of the children. They discover how precious life, love and the ties that bind them really are ini this tale about the intricate circumstances surrounding what happens when a man's new wife learns from his former wife that she is terminally ill with cancer (Stepmom, 1998).

 

                         - I'll handle it from here, Issabel    

                                 - I'm sure you will, Jackie

Issabel, "You know, I never wanted to be a mom. Sharing it with you... that's one thing. It's another to be looking over my shoulder for the next twenty years, knowing someone else would have done it better, someone else would have done it right".

Jackie, "What do I have that you don't?"

Issabel, "You're Mother Earth, incarnate".

Jackie, "You're... hip, and fresh".

Issabel, "You ride with Anna". 

Jackie, "You'll learn". 

Issabel, "You know every story, every wound, every memory. Their whole life's happiness is wrapped up in you... every single second. Don't you get it? Look down the road to her wedding. I'm in a room alone with her, fixing her veil, fluffing her dress, telling her no woman has ever looked so beautiful. And my fear is she'll be thinking, "I wish my mom was here."

Jackie, "And mine is... she won't".