SNL sketch parodies saccharine Mother's Day movies with Matt Damon as the perfect husband
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William Vaillancourt
Sketches a bagel but doesn't bake it through.
Summary
Saturday Night Live aired a sketch featuring Matt Damon as the doting husband in a parody movie called "Mom" — a completely conflict-free, inoffensive film designed to appeal to mothers everywhere. The trailer shows an empty nester mom whose three adult children announce they're all moving back in. The voiceover emphasizes the movie is "completely devoid of conflict, suspense and dramatic tension," with absurdly wholesome scenarios like a daughter worrying about a pickleball tournament.
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Ahead of Mother's Day, the movie's trailer opens with an empty nester mom (Ashley Padilla) in a big house being visited by her three adult children who have an announcement she loves to hear: they're all moving back in.
Saturday Night Live host Matt Damon was cast as the adoring husband in Mom, an entirely inoffensive movie where nothing bad happens—something that mothers everywhere will enjoy.
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