The Netflix movie 'Otherhood' is the first major role for Felicity Huffman since her involvement in the college admissions scandal was revealed.
in April, and it couldn’t have been an easy decision to push the premiere back. It doesn’t seem like a small budget affair: The film also stars Patricia Arquette and Angela Bassett, two bankable A-listers with enough of a draw on their own to release the movie regardless of how Huffman’s case turns out. But the move to August meant that my viewing of the movie pointedly cast it in the harsh light of the scandal, in a way it wouldn’t have if they’d gone ahead with its initial April release.
The movie centers around three moms—Bassett, Arquette, and Huffman—who became friends when their boys met as children and then grew up together. Now that their sons are adults and the moms’ personal lives cause them varying degrees of ennui, they decide one Mother’s Day to crash their sons’ lives in New York.Netflix/Linda Kallerus
It’s a cute premise, and Huffman, Arquette, and Bassett are all respectively endearing, gorgeous, and great at acting.
But the truth is, I watched it because of Huffman’s legal troubles, not in spite of them. That, to me, is the Streisand effect in a nutshell. I’m not saying Huffman couldn’t land a comeback—she's talented, and as problematic as her involvement in the scandal was, male celebrities launch comebacks after much worse . But this ain’t it.
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