It's Election Day, but instead of focusing on politics, we decided to do something a little lighter for the occasion: we're looking at this year's hot mom rom-com boom. Host Brittany Luse is joined by New York Magazine features writer Rachel Handler to get a little deeper into three movies from this genre: A Family Affair, The Idea of You, and Between the Temples. They discuss how hot moms on screen have changed, but why movies like these often still feel behind the times.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. A warning, this segment contains references to sex and sexuality. Okay, y'all, is it just me, or are we in a hot mom rom-com boom? Boom.
By my count, there are at least seven movies this year that feature older women falling in love with much younger men. There's The Idea of You, A Family Affair, Lonely Planet, and Baby Girl, just to name a few. But why now?
I can't say exactly why, but I have many possible theories. That's my guest today.
New York Magazine features writer Rachel Handler. She wrote about why older women are this year's most coveted object of desire.
You know, we're suffering from a lack of social institutions. They failed us. Do we have a sort of societal mommy issue? Is there something going on where we're running out of movie stars and we need to start creating projects for the movie stars that we do have who are inevitably getting older as, you know, time marches forward?
Hot moms are obviously timeless. I mean, we've seen hot moms in cinema for a long time. There was Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. What do you think of me?
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