Mommy & Mommy's Day Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		2.0
Video		1.5
Audio		4.0
Extras		2.5
Overall		2.0

Mommy & Mommy's Day Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman December 26, 2019

Patty McCormack will most likely always be in the annals of Academy Award history (or at least trivia) by being one of the youngest nominees in Oscar history, a nomination for Best Supporting Actress which she secured when she was just a bit over eleven years old, for her work as murderous Rhoda Penmark in The Bad Seed. McCormack’s portrayal of the nefarious Rhoda was so disturbing that the film version not only had to change the ending of the original play, but also have a kind of cheeky (pun intended) coda with Rhoda getting pretend spanked during the closing credits. Alas, there’s no one around to spank a grown up McCormack as the titular character in Mommy and its follow up, Mommy’s Day.

For reviews of the two films in this set, please click on the following links:

Mommy Blu-ray review

Mommy's Day Blu-ray review

Mommy & Mommy's Day Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Mommy & Mommy's Day Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Mommy & Mommy's Day Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

The Blu-ray disc offers the following supplements:

• Commentary for both films feature writer and director Max Allan Collins, with director of photography and editor Phillip W. Dingeldein. The Commentaries are accessible under the Setup Menu.

Additionally, the films come with presentations in standard definition on a bonus DVD, as well as another bonus DVD with the following Special Features:

• Leonard Maltin on Mommy (480p; 3:12) is culled from an old episode of Entertainment Tonight and features the added attraction of Mary Hart in "vintage" fashions.


• Mommy: Original Trailer (480p; 3:21)


• Mommy Bloopers (480p; 18:00)


• Mommy PBS Documentary (480p; 8:15) proves that those pledge dollars you've been offering are going toward good causes.


• Mommy's Day: Patty McCormack Interviewed by Max Allan Collins (480p; 17:17)


• The Making of Mommy - A Documentary by J. Rigler (480p; 28:42)

Mommy & Mommy's Day Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

McCormack is a lot of fun in both of these films, and she seems to genuinely be enjoying herself playing such an unrepentant sort. The supporting casts in both films are quite colorful, and some of the writing actually has a bit of comedic spark at times. That said, both of these efforts are pretty unabashedly lo-fi, and neither really provide much in the way of suspense or chills. Video is pretty problematic on both transfers, but audio is fine, and the supplementary material, while in standard def on a DVD, is appealing, for those who are considering a purchase.