Mommy's Day

Mommy's Day (1997)

After escaping a lethal injection for the murders Mommy (Patty McCormack) had committed, she is given a special implant in her arm that will keep her from having homicidal urges. However, since she still tries to see her daughter and other murders are continuing, it doesn't look very good for Mommy.

Date of release
1997-01-31
TMDB
3.3 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Mystery, Horror
Director
Max Allan Collins
Collection
Mommy Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Mommy 2: Mommy's Day is a 1997 low budget sequel to the 1995 thriller Mommy starring Patty McCormack once again as the psychotically obsessed mother who is trying to reunite with her daughter.

Production

Most of the cast from the first film returned for the sequel, including Sarah Jane Miller who plays the twin sister of her original character. Michael Cornelison also plays a different role, as the supervising psychiatrist. Jason Miller, was unwilling to reprise his role due to a smaller salary compared to the first, so his character was briefly played by Arlen Dean Snyder before being incapacitated by a stroke during the breakout scene.

As with the original, all of the film was shot in Iowa, specifically in the towns of Muscatine, Davenport and Bettendorf. Rachel Lemieux's character was written as an ice skating student as the actress had become interested in the sport by the time the sequel was filmed- her real life coach, Mark Cockrell, is featured in a small role as himself.

The talk show "Paula Sands Live" was a real television show which began in 1993 and aired in Iowa on KWQC-TV6 (the same network which appears in on a memo header in the film). In reality, the series followed a more traditional morning show type of format, not the sensationalistic 'Ricki Lake'-like program that is portrayed in the film.

Mommy 2 was initially released to cable in 1997 but, unlike its predecessor, was unable to recoup its initial investment. It later was released on DVD and then in 2020, in a 25th Anniversary double-Blu-ray/DVD package with the first Mommy film.

Many of the cast- Rachel Lemieux, Michael Cornelison, Brinke Stevens in particular- would later reunite and work with Max Allan Collins on his 2001 production Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market.

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