The Mother (film)
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| The Mother | |
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 Movie poster for The Mother |
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| Directed by | Roger Michell |
| Produced by | Kevin Loader |
| Written by | Hanif Kureishi |
| Starring | Anne Reid, Peter Vaughan, Daniel Craig |
| Music by | Jeremy Sams |
| Cinematography | Alwin H. Kuchler |
| Editing by | Nicolas Gaster |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
| Release date(s) | 14 November 2003 (UK) |
| Running time | 112 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £1,500,000 |
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The Mother is a 2003 British film directed by Roger Michell.
Tagline: It can take a lifetime to feel alive.
[edit] Plot
May (played by Anne Reid) is an ordinary grandmother from North England. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Trapped in an unfamiliar city, far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old lady whose life is more or less over. She embarks on a sexual affair with Darren (Daniel Craig), a married handyman half her age who is renovating her son's house and is also her daughter's lover. As her sexual desire soon turns to emotional longing, May unwittingly embroils herself into a point-of-no-return situation with devastating results for all those surrounding her.
[edit] Cast
- Anne Reid - May, mother to Bobby and Paula, widow of Toots
- Daniel Craig - Darren, Bobby's best friend and Paula's lover, a handyman.
- Peter Vaughan - Toots, May's husband and Bobby and Paula's father
- Steven Mackintosh - Bobby, son of Toots and May, and brother to Paula
- Cathryn Bradshaw - Paula, daughter of Toots and May, and sister to Bobby
- Anna Wilson-Jones - Helen, Bobby's estranged wife
- Harry Michell - Harry, Bobby and Helen's son
- Rosie Michell - Rosie, Bobby and Helen's daughter
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