My One and Only

My One and Only

2009108 min6.6 / 10

A warm, playful road-trip comedy-drama about a determined mother and her sons seeking stability and love across 1950s America.

A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York to Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

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