Film

Bad Moms

Name: Bad Moms
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2016
Cast: Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell, Christina Applegate, Jada Pinkett Smith

Bad Moms is a raunchy studio comedy that takes the impossible standards of modern parenting and detonates them with wine, swearing and a school bake sale gone feral. Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn play mothers who stop performing perfection and start living for themselves. It's broad, crowd-pleasing and cathartic if you've ever wanted to scream at a PTA meeting.

TMDb rating

6.5

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