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Trading Mom is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 13 may 1994 with Sissy Spacek
Trading Mom (1994)
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Add to a movie listTrading Mom (also released as The Mommy Market) is a 1994 fantasy/comedy film written and directed by Tia Brelis, based on her mother's book. Starring Sissy Spacek and Anna Chlumsky, it features the final acting role of André the Giant, who died a year before it was released.
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Elizabeth, Jeremy, and Harry Martin are three children who have had up to the edge with their mother, a nagging workaholic. Soon, they meet a mysterious gardener named Mrs. Cavour, who tells them of an ancient spell that will make her disappear. After saying the incantation one night, the next morning, she has disappeared along with their memories of her. Mrs. Cavour tells them of a place in town called the Mommy Market, where they have about every kind of mother one can think of. It has a policy, however, that one receives three tokens to take one of the mothers home, and if they do not find a suitable one by their third token, they can not return. Unfortunately for them, the mothers they pick: a snappy French woman, a nature-hiker, and a circus performer, do not sit well with them. Feeling lost without a guardian to look after them, they soon learn that their real mother has been sent to the Mommy Market herself, where she has been all along. In order to break the spell and see her return, they must remember something about her.Actors
Sissy Spacek
(Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha)
Anna Chlumsky
(Elizabeth Martin)
Aaron Michael Metchik
(Jeremy Martin)
Maureen Stapleton
(Mrs. Cavour, the Gardener)
Schuyler Fisk
(Suzy)
Frank Welker
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