This summer, moms are horny. At least, if Hollywood is anything to go by.
Recently, we’ve been served films like A Family Affair and The Idea of You that have one singular message: a typical mom may look like a sweet and classy woman of a certain age who is aging gracefully, but underneath, she’s begging to be taken to pound town. Preferably, by a beefed up boy toy half her age who wants nothing more than to pleasure her.
The two main pieces of media serving us this narrative are the recently released The Idea of You and A Family Affair, which came out in May and on Friday, respectively. This duo fell into the iconic Friends With Benefits/No Strings Attached conundrum of being two distinct films from different distributors that tread very similar subject matter. In both, an “older” (read, 40 and up) woman who has long been relegated into the (sexless) category of mother has her life and joie de vivre reawakened by falling in love with a younger famous man. Bottom line: They rediscover themselves by fucking a hot piece of ass.
Sure, both films pay lip service to the idea that what really breathes life back into these characters, played by Anne Hathaway and Nicole Kidman, is that they are “finding themselves” as women after raising their kids and losing their husbands to divorce or death and rediscovering love and passion and their womanhood and blah blah blah.
But, let’s be real. There’s no love happening here. What’s happening is lots of hooking up with really hot guys, played by Nicholas Galitzine and Zac Efron. These moms are horny and primed for action. They are DTF. And as soon as a little cub wanders into their lair, these cougars are ready to pounce.
I mean, you can’t tell me with a straight face that A Family Affair’s hot mom Brooke, played by Kidman, has any interest in Efron’s Chris besides his washboard abs and overall Zac Efron-ness. The duo meets when Chris goes to the home of his long-suffering Gen Z assistant Zara (Joey King) after firing her and stumbles upon Brooke instead. Brooke, like any straight woman with a pulse, looks at Efron and is like, mmm yes. When he inexplicably asks her for a mid-day shot of Casamigos, she savvily joins him in getting day drunk.
This is a woman who is supposed to be a bestselling novelist, a writer who has enough success to live in a beach house on the westside of Los Angeles. You think she’s interested in Chris, an action movie hero who doesn’t even know the Greek myth his franchise is based on, for his brain? In fact, Brooke informing Chris that the Icarus films he stars in is actually, probably, based on the mythology is the only real conversation they have in the movie before they hop into bed for the first time.
