The Mother (film)
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| Directed by | Roger Michell |
| Produced by | Kevin Loader |
| Written by | Hanif Kureishi |
| Starring |
Anne Reid Peter Vaughan Daniel Craig Danira Gović |
| Music by | Jeremy Sams |
| Cinematography | Alwin H. Kuchler |
| Edited by | Nicolas Gaster |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
Release dates | 14 November 2003 |
Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £1.5 million |
The Mother is a 2003 British film directed by Roger Michell.
Plot
May (played by Anne Reid) is an ordinary grandmother from Northern 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.
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
- Danira Gović - Au Pair
- 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
Awards and Honors
Wins
- 2004 London Critics Circle Film Awards
- ALFS Award - Anne Reid
Nominations
- 2004 BAFTA Awards
- BAFTA Film Award - Anne Reid
- 2004 British Independent Film Award - Anne Reid
- Lino Brocka Award - Roger Michell
- 2004 Audience Award - Daniel Craig and Anne Reid
- 2003 European Film Award - Anne Reid and Hanif Kureishi
- 2004 London Critics Circle Film Awards
- ALFS Award - Daniel Craig, Hanif Kureishi, Film of the Year
- Golden Goblet - Roger Michell
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