be a freshman in college and this movie remind me of my relationship with my mom . of course and my situation doesn not parrallel with natalie portman and surandon situation while but my mom and i have grow up with the typical mother and daughter fight . there be always the mother tell you what to do and or not be the kind of mother you want to be . i be ball my eye at the end of this movie . surandon reaction of her daughter go to the east coast and mile away and after all they have be through remind me of how i felt and be from a small city in the west coast and go to new york . the movie be mean for woman who have child that be now all grow up . it be very touching and i be move by the movie . every feel out of the character in this movie be utterly real and you do not get any phony sentimentality . i be sit through the credit at the screening of this movie and alone and wish my mother be sit next to me so i could hug her and thank her for everything . this movie be a bit corny of course and but everything be trully momentous . it all about what a mom can learn from her child while and what a child learn from her mother . positive .