Throughout the month of May Join us for the Cool Mom's film series, featuring an all-star lineup of the most badass, heartwarming, and downright cool moms in cinema.

Ditch the breakfast in bed routine and join us for a tribute to the matriarchs who mastered the art of cool under pressure, from espionage experts with a baby on the hip to matriarchs managing mayhem with a smirk. These films celebrate motherhood in all its glory - from the women who can pack a lunch, parallel park, and plan an epic escape from danger all before noon, to the ones whose love and wit keep their families (and audiences) in stitches.

These aren't your typical moms...

FILM LINE UP

CARRIE 5.3.24

LADYBIRD 5.4.24

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN 5.9.24

ALMOST FAMOUS 5.10.24

MOTHER!  5.11.24

20th CENTURY WOMEN 5.11.24

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT 5.12.24

EVERYTHING EVERWHERE ALL AT ONCE 5.17.24

GREY GARDENS 5.18.24

SECRETS & LIES 5.19.24

SERIAL MOM 5.23.24

THE BROOD 5.24.24

HEREDITARY 5.25.24

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE 5.25.24

MOTHER 5.26.24

IMITATION OF LIFE 5.26.24

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE 5.27.24

Cool Moms Film Series

  • Oriental Theatre

    Lady Bird (Cool Moms Series)

    In 2002, an artistically inclined 17-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.

    Director: Greta Gerwig USA | 2017 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    We Need to Talk About Kevin (Cool Moms Series)

    Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child despite the increasingly dangerous things he says...

    Director: Lynne Ramsay USA | 2011 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Almost Famous (Cool Moms Series)

    A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine...

    Director: Cameron Crowe USA | 2000 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Mother! (Cool Moms Series)

    A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranq...

    Director: Darren Aronofsky USA | 2017 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    20th Century Women (Cool Moms Series)

    The story of a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him among the love and fr...

    Director: Mike Mills USA | 2016 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Carrie (Cool Moms Series)

    Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, ...

    Director: Brian De Palma USA | 1976 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Everything Everywhere All at Once (Cool Moms Series)

    A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save exi...

    Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert USA | 2022 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Grey Gardens (Cool Moms Series)

    Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thriv...

    Director: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer USA | 1975 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Secrets & Lies (Cool Moms Series)

    Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contac...

    Director: Mike Leigh UK | 1996 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Serial Mom (Cool Moms Series)

    She's the perfect all-American parent: a great cook and homemaker, a devoted recycler, and a woman w...

    Director: John Waters USA | 1994 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    The Brood (Cool Moms Series)

    A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized ...

    Director: David Cronenberg Canada | 1979 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Terms of Endearment (Cool Moms Series)

    Terms of Endearment dazzled critics and audiences alike with its believable, insightful story of two...

    Director: James L. Brooks USA | 1983 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    The Manchurian Candidate (Cool Moms Series)

    An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Commu...

    Director: John Frankenheimer USA | 1962 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Mother (Cool Moms Series)

    A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.

    Director: Bong Joon Ho South Korea | 2009 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Imitation of Life (Cool Moms Series)

    An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate ...

    Director: Douglas Sirk USA | 1959 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Postcards from the Edge (Cool Moms Series)

    A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in ...

    Director: Mike Nichols USA | 1990 |

  • Oriental Theatre

    Hereditary (Cool Moms Series)

    A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.

    Director: Ari Aster USA | 2018 |

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