Helicopter Mom

3/28/2026

I usually hate to just write-off a film, but this really doesn’t have much going for it at all. Indeed, just how “Lloyd” (Jason Dolley) made it to his seventeenth birthday without killing himself or his ferociously irritating mother “Maggie” (Nia Vardalos) is quite a puzzle in itself. For some reason she has concluded that he is gay. He hasn’t a clue, one way or the other, but goes with the flow for the moment as she manages to get him a scholarship to study in New York and that, frankly, is all he cares about if it gets him away from her for a while. Meantime, his far less interfering and divorced father “Max” (Mark Boone Junior) takes a far more hands-off approach to his son’s sexuality accepting that it will emerge at it’s own pace as he sees fit, and that he will be there regardless. T