The Mother
by Roger Michell
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Actor: Anna Wilson-Jones, Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Danira Govich, Peter VaughanDirector: Roger Michell
Producer: Angus Finney
Producer: David M. Thompson
Producer: Kevin Loader
Producer: Rosa Romero
Producer: Stephen Evans
Producer: Tracey Scoffield
Writer: Hanif Kureishi
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Mother
Movie Review: Very Well Wriiten Film
Summary: 4 Stars
As a fan of Daniel Craig, I bought this film based on his body of work (thanks IMDB). I vaguely remembered critics buzzing about this movie, especially around award season a few years ago.
Overall the performances among the three main characters were well done; made me uncomfortable a few times, but that is the nature of the story. Watching an older woman 'get in touch with her sexuality' would be difficult to direct, but Roger Michell made it seem natural.
Summary of The Mother
Anne Reid stars as May, an ordinary grandmother from the North of England. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Stuck in an unfamiliar city, far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old lady whose life is more or less over. Until, that is, she embarks on a passionate affair with Darren (Daniel Craig), a man half her age who is renovating her son's house and sleeping with her daughter. Directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Changing Lanes). Written by Academy Award? nominated writer Hanif Kureishi (Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for My Beautiful Launderette).The movies have their share of gray-haired men romancing young women, but the spectacle of a sexual relationship between an old woman and a young man is still exotic enough for The Mother to startle audiences. Newly widowed Anne Reid, sixtyish, finds herself disenchanted with her indifferent children, and drawn to a studly handyman (Daniel Craig, from Sylvia). The observant directorial hand of Roger Michell guides them through some brutally frank sex scenes, without ignoring the psychological mess that underlies it all. It comes as no surprise that this scenario springs from the mind of Hanif Kureishi, who's been poking at British propriety since My Beautiful Laundrette. The film offers no characters to actually like, which makes it a bitter course to navigate. But Anne Reid's gutsy performance, which carries zero trace of glamour, is certainly a bold venture that asks no pity. --Robert Horton
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