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The story of the kidnapping of from the Nova Music Festival by Hamas terrorists on October 7 transfixed not only Israelis and Jews, but much of the world, and now her rescue and return to Israel has also touched hearts, not least because it has allowed her to be reunited with her mother, Liora, who is dying of cancer. That makes this week a good time to enjoy mother-daughter movies and there are quite a few available. If you want something silly and fun, with great pop songs, watch On Apple TV+, starring Meryl Streep as the mother who never told her daughter who her father is, and Amanda Seyfried as the daughter who wants to know before she gets married.

The latest version of , this one, directed by , is streaming on Netflix, with Laura Dern as the matriarch and Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen as her determined daughters. Also on Netflix, you can see , a coming-of-age story with a touching mother-daughter relationship at its center. If you want something a little different, try on Hot 3, Hot VOD, and Next TV, which just started running on Wednesday nights.



It is the dramatized version of a bizarre true story of how a mechanic named Ed and his exercise instructor/wife Heather, who live together in a small town in New Zealand, stumbled on an international drug deal in 2016 involving half a billion dollars’ worth of meth, bumbling Australian-Tongan smugglers, and Chinese drug lords. Some of the story may seem too crazy to be true, but the show’s .

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