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Welcome to New MILF Cinema
2024 is the year of onscreen moms climbing atop a youthful stud and running off into the sunset.
Codified by Anne Bancroft, satirized by Jennifer Coolidge, outrageously Australianized by Naomi Watts, she is now, in 2024, exploding into the mainstream rom-com, these days as a normie protagonist just going about her life until she’s confronted with the undeniable cock of a man at least one decade her junior. And the mommy-and-me kink shows no signs of slowing down —in October, Netflix drops the Laura Dern–Liam Hemsworth vehicle Lonely Planet, and a slate of erotic thrillers on the way featuring potential Empowered MILF protagonists includes I Want Your Sex, wherein Olivia Wilde bones Cooper Hoffman, and Babygirl, wherein Nicole Kidman does the very same to Harris Dickinson. Or are these movies quietly reinforcing the norms they seek to critique by acting like it’s inherently irreverent for a woman to date below her age group, or impossible to write a 40-plus female character who considers herself a vibrant sexual being without making the internal question of her viability into a central plot point?
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