Societal values are changing with the advancement of civilization thereby pitching so much challenge and pressure against the family unit. ‘Moms at War’ as a movie is a deliberate effort to confront the dilemmas that bedevils the modern family and seeks to proffer answers to those perplexing questions.
‘Moms at War’ is produced by Omoni Oboli who also co – stars in the movie with Funke Akindele, Yul Edochie and Eucheria Anunobi who is reappearing on the screen after a period of absence. The movie ‘Moms at War’ is beautifully scripted with simple and straightforward plot set in a modern Society somewhere around the Lekki Peninsula of metropolitan Lagos.
‘Moms at War’ will premier nationwide in Nigeria in all Cinemas on Friday 17th August. Speaking about the film, Omoni Oboli, the Producer explained that she did not write the story but that when she saw the story, “I decided that I was going to produce this story because I saw my mother of blessed memory in it.
“The movie, ‘Moms at War’, reminds me of how my mother practically gave her life trying to make my sister and I amount to what we are today. I saw a mother who fought separation and the challenges of life and sacrificing everything to see that her children amounted to something. I did the movie to the memory of my mother and every other African mother out there”.
In the story Omoni Oboli, who is married to a randy husband (Yul Edochie) and has a neighbour who is a single mother (Funke Akindele) of an only son. The story sets out to portray the challenges the modern African woman has to contend with in her effort to raise a strong family, with morally sound children while coping with the pressure of family life albeit in the midst of a philandering husband while simultaneously dealing with the unending confrontations of difficult neighbours.
The difficult neighbours eventually had to deal with the issue of the contest between their children emerging tops for an oversea leadership training course. But their children were already very good friends throwing their fights into another level.
The movie has a special guest appearance of the weird one, Denrele Edun as a psychological conflict resolution coach who strives in vain to reconcile the two uncompromisingly warring mothers.
The movie takes an interesting turnaround as Funke Akindele and Omoni Obloli through unexpected occurrence become best of friends after both of them caught Omoni’s unfaithful husband red handed in the act leading both women to get into drinking spree, sleeping off after getting drunk and their children discovering them drunk! eventually, standing by each other and even serving detention together in police custody while their teenage children struggle with the pressure and attraction to avoid premarital sex.
‘Moms at War’ is a very relaxing movie infused with a lot of humour, dramatic suspense, relief, marital scandal and many more.
Among the multiple themes the movies focuses on are is the of understanding between parents and teenage and adolescent children; forgiveness; marital reunion; love, friendship, mothers love and perseverance as we see Eucharia Anunobi relentlessly fighting to save her school from being closed down.
My sweetest moment in the movie was when Yul Edochie’s wife, Omoni Oboli, had to confront her husband with the inevitable choice of requesting for separation from the marriage by asking her husband to move out of the matrimonial home.
“Those ladies remind me of you”, Yul Edochie serenades her in a frank and emotion-laden voice that that momentarily disarms Omoni, making her take a pause with a deep breath and looking at her guilty husband with compassionate weakness!
By Renn Offor
