Motherhood is a 2009 independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann and starring Uma Thurman. In New York's West Village, a mother's dilemmas of marriage, work, and self are shown in the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day. Motherhood and Arlen Faber were a pair of films independently financed and produced by the New York City-based iDeal Partners Film Fund. The two films were part of a coordinated effort by iDeal Partners to reduce the risk in investing in film production during the late-2000s recession; they were pre-sold to foreign distributors, cast... with "commercially-tested actors" and took advantage of U.S. state tax incentives that encouraged film production. Both also premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. As of January 2009, Jana Edelbaum, co-founder of iDeal Partners, was predicting "at least a 15 percent return for her investors and – if something big happens with Motherhood or Arlen Faber – as much as 40 percent.
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| Release date: | October 23, 2009 |
| Directed by: | Katherine Dieckmann |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Producer: | Christine Vachon, John Wells, Yee Yeo Chang, Jana Edelbaum, Pamela Koffler, Rachel Cohen, Robin Sweet |
| Editor: | Michael R. Miller |
| Music by: | Joe Henry |
| Cinematography: | Nancy Schreiber |
| Screenplay by: | Katherine Dieckmann |
| Estimated budget: | $10,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |