A custody battle turns intimate and unsparing in The Good Mother, a 2023 catalog drama built around one impossible family decision.
What is The Good Mother about?
When her ex-husband discovers that their young daughter climbed into bed with her and her new partner, a recently divorced mother finds her fitness as a parent suddenly on trial. What began as an ordinary night at home becomes the center of a custody dispute, and every adult in the story is pulled into defending choices that once felt private. Lawyers, relatives, and the child herself get drawn into a question that resists a clean answer: what counts as good parenting once someone else has the power to decide.
About the cast
Diane Keaton leads the cast opposite Liam Neeson, with Jason Robards, Ralph Bellamy, Teresa Wright, James Naughton, Asia Vieira, and Joe Morton rounding out a supporting ensemble that gives the household and courtroom scenes comparable weight.
Context & significance
The Good Mother belongs to a run of American dramas that used custody law as a way to examine shifting attitudes toward parenting, privacy, and how much a court is entitled to know about a family's private life. Rather than casting an obvious villain, the film keeps its sympathies split between two parents, leaving viewers to sit with a judgment call that ultimately falls to a stranger on the bench rather than to the people who actually raised the child.
Watching The Good Mother on Ktime
The Good Mother streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, part of a catalog built around a Farsi-first viewing experience for Persian-speaking audiences everywhere. A free K-Time account is all that is required; log in and press play to start watching.