Mommy, Mommy

Sylvie Rosenthal
2008-06-28

1
44 min

Examines the challenges faced by a lesbian couple on their quest to become parents. Mommy Mommy is a documentary about a lesbian couple’s struggle to have a child. Set in Quebec, the first province to legalize same-sex adoption, Mommy Mommy chronicles one couple’s dream to adopt and have a family despite local prejudices and a homophobic provincial bureaucracy in the wake of the controversial legislation to recognize gay marriage in Canada.