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Daughter of journalist Dean Brelis and novelist Nancy Brelis. The latter wrote the novel "The Mommy (aka Mummy) Market", on which Tia's film "Trading Mom" is based.
- Director, Writer
- Tia Brelis
Trading Mom (also known as The Mommy Market) is a 1994 American fantasy comedy film written and directed by Tia Brelis, based on her mother Nancy Brelis' 1966 book The Mummy Market. It stars Sissy Spacek, Anna Chlumsky, Aaron Michael Metchik, Maureen Stapleton, and André the Giant in his final film appearance.
May 7, 1994 · Tia Brelis, 38, was pregnant with her second child (her husband is Universal executive Casey Silver) when she first approached De Laurentiis about producing the $4-million...
Director and screenwriter whose feature debut "Trading Mom" (1994) was adapted from her mother Nancy Brelis's book, "The Mummy Market" (1966). A family-oriented film with a updated fairy tale quality, it featured Sissy Spacek as a single mother, traded in by her 12 year-old daughter Anna...
May 13, 1994 · When writer-director Tia Brelis was growing up she was beguiled by a story her mother Nancy told her over and over called “The Mommy Market.” Subsequently, her mother published it as a novel;...
Jul 5, 2022 · Barely gracing the inside of cinemas, this Sissy Spacek star vehicle has long been consigned to obscurity. Dave finds out why. “We used to tease my mother that we were going to trade her in,” remembers Tia Brelis about the inspiration for her mother’s book, The Mummy Market.
May 13, 1994 · Trading Mom: Directed by Tia Brelis. With Sissy Spacek, Anna Chlumsky, Aaron Michael Metchik, Asher Metchik. Three children have had it with their mother, and magically make her disappear. They then head out to the "Mommy Market" for a replacement mother.
