During a screening of Julie and Julia (which is half one of the best performances of Streep’s career, which you know really says a lot) and half, MEH, they showed a few Oscar-tastic trailers. One of them has Sandra Bullock playing a mom taking on a challenging adoption, and another is Renee Zellweger in period piece as a single mom driving her boys across the country looking for employment. Though trailers can’t tell you everything, they were interesting for our purposes.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3mNjYef_W8[/youtube]
By the way, this one made me bawl (because I’m just lame, what can I say) and then I wanted to shoot myself:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khtBvQdxta4[/youtube]