Watts’ Lil is the softer, more romantic of the pair—willing to burn her life down for the intensity of first love. Wright’s Roz is the pragmatist, trying to apply logic ("We are not their mothers right now") to an illogical situation. The film’s most uncomfortable scene occurs when Roz discovers her son Ian has taken a girlfriend his own age. Roz’s jealousy is not maternal concern; it is the raw, ugly possessiveness of a spurned lover. In that moment, Two Mothers asks a devastating question: What happens when a mother is jealous of her son’s future?
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