Freestyle ReleasingAfter all her years in the acting business and creative and commercial successes under her belt, Uma Thurman should be a sure bet for filmmakers.Katherine Dieckmann's Motherhood had some potential to be good, too, as the director channeled her own experiences as a struggling parent in a big city into Motherhood's story of a struggling parent in a big city. An independent production with a low budget of $10 million (low compared to, say, Transformers 4), it was one of two small films financed by the New York City-based iDeal Partners Film Fund. In fact, iDeal was started precisely to release low-risk films, movies that would definitely make a return on their investment during the credit crunch age, with low budgets, productions which took advantage of tax incentives and which starred "commercially-tested actors" such as Thurman. As it happened, Motherhood received a limited American release in 2009 by Freestyle Releasing and, even worse, was shown in just one cinema in London the following year, making just £9 from a single audience member on its opening night and £88 on its opening weekend, with eleven people seeing the film in all. No less than veteran film critic Barry Norman suggested that "it's a reasonable assumption that there was a marketing and advertising catastrophe, and people didn't know it was showing." Motherhood was actually only the second biggest flop in UK cinema history, but the first was a small indie film that made £7; this was a reasonable-sized Hollywood production. Which eleven people saw. Because the studio messed up.