I've never heard of this movie before, but it's one my girlfriend apparently watched as a child. (In her exact words, "I wasn't even sure if this movie was real or a bad dream.") Anyway, she just stumbled across it on Netflix and is presently subjecting me to it. We're about 15 minutes in but I immediately felt compelled to create an Earwolf message board account so I could recommend this movie. It's not just terrible, it's HDTGM terrible. It's about three horrible children who hate their strict mom (played by Sissy Spacek). They meet an old woman in a garden who tells them how they can wish their mother out of existence. So they proceed to wish their mom away. Then they return to the old woman who tells them about a magical market place where they can buy a new mom. The "Mommy Market" is like Diagon Alley from Harry Potter, meets a early 90s Sunny-D commercial, meets the slave auction scene from 12 Years A Slave. The kids are allowed to buy up to three moms. If they don't find a mom they like after three tries, they'll apparently never have a mom again. As I write this, they're test driving their first mom, who - get this - is played by Sissy Spacek. Only she's a fancy French aristocrat or some shit. Somehow this movie is from 1994 but looks like it was made in 1973. I'm a long-time listener of HDTGM, but this is the first time I've come across a movie so bad I felt compelled to instantly nominate it.
