Fisio Physical Therapy & Wellness is getting into the movie business.

The recently-opened Mt Pleasant Road physical therapy center is actually getting into the sponsorship of movie screenings, and will host its first offering this weekend. A Moms Night Event will feature a free 7 pm screening of Bad Moms at Edmond Town Hall. Those who arrive early at 45 Main Street will also enjoy free chair massages and refreshments.

Released in July, the film introduces audiences to Amy, Carle and Kiki (Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, and Kristen Bell, respectively), three overworked and underappreciated moms who are pushed beyond their limits by myriad circumstances. Once they reach their breaking points the three ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self-indulgence.

The film also features Christina Applegate, Jada Pinkett Smith and Annie Mumolo as PTA members with personal agendas; and David Walton and Lyle Brocato as the husbands of two of the discouraged mothers.

Bad Moms has a running time of 1 hour, 40 minutes. It is rated R (sexual material, full frontal nudity, language throughout, and drug and alcohol content).

Karen LaBanca, the owner of fisio and one of its physical therapists, said the movie is not going to be for everyone, but she thinks many mothers will appreciate it.

"I know the movie has vulgar parts, but it also has a lot of funny parts," Ms LaBanca said January 24. "It's essentially the female version of The Hangover."

Ms LaBanca said she and her sister saw the film in Danbury when it was released in July.

"We laughed and laughed and laughed," she said. "We were surrounded by other women, and men - moms and dads, I'm sure - who were in hysterics."

Ms LaBanca, a Sandy Hook resident and the mother of two young women - one in middle school, the other in high school - laughingly said the choice of the weekend screening "should be pretty self-explanatory.

"We can all identify with moms struggling to just keep up, and thinking that we're making it, only to be surprised," she said Tuesday afternoon. "I thought that after the holidays, and the election, we could all use a little bit of laughter."

Bobby Jo Beers, of The Traveling Chic Boutique in Monroe, and Mia Ramey, a speech therapist who is also a tenant in the new building where fisio Physical Therapy recently celebrated its opening, are also partially sponsoring the Moms Night Out event.

Licensed massage therapist Katie Reed will be joining Ms LaBanca to provide the chair massages.

"People can come in as early at 6, and we will be picking up the evening," Ms LaBanca said. "We just want to treat moms - but dads are welcome too - for a fun night out with a really funny movie, with snacks and drinks and a chair massage, on us."

Bad Moms is being offered at Edmond Town Hall only on January 28. In addition to the Moms Night Out show at 7, screenings are also planned for 1, 4 and 9 pm. Tickets for those shows will be the regular ETH Theatre price of $3 each.

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