'Mom's Night Out' Movie Brings Laughs Shares Actress Patricia Heaton

 

'Mom's Night Out' Movie Brings Laughs Shares Actress Patricia Heaton

Mom's Night Out released to theaters on May 9th and was released with a lot of heart and PG rated humor, a great family film!  The film was directed by Andrew and Jon Erwin and starred Sarah Drew, Sean Astin, Patricia Heaton, Trace Adkins, David Hunt and Logan White. Although there are believers who go to church in the film, they come across as real people with failings and short comings, not as saints. 

An acknowledged Christian, Emmy Award-winning actress Patricia Heaton states that she didn't join with filmmakers Andrew and Jon Irwin on "Moms' Night Out" because they're Christ followers, but because they had a down-to-earth, funny story to tell.

"I think {Christians} do ourselves a big disservice when we focus on making 'Christian movies' because we automatically alienate a huge portion of our possible audience," explains Heaton who both produced and co-stars in the film. "What we need to do is focus on really good, human stories, well-told."

"A lot of material that's been faith-based has been very restrictive creatively because {the film-makers} tiptoe around anything that might possibly offend," she says.  

"I think there's a very few vocal voices that won't allow anything in a movie they consider offensive."  This, she debates, results in productions that "fail to reflect the realities of people's lives...the beauty of comedy is, because everything's done with a sense of humor, you can explore things a little bit more and be more human and have characters who show their flaws and humanity and have it be funny and entertaining for everybody.  I think that's what "Moms' Night Out" has done.  For the first time it portrays Christians as real people with flaws and failings and also a sense of humor."

If you haven't seen the movie yet, make sure to check out Mom's Night Out!

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