The Mother (film)

Infobox_Film
name = The Mother

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caption = Movie poster for "The Mother"
director = Roger Michell
producer = Kevin Loader
writer = Hanif Kureishi
starring = Anne Reid,
Peter Vaughan,
Daniel Craig
music = Jeremy Sams
cinematography = Alwin H. Kuchler
editing = Nicolas Gaster
distributor = Sony Pictures Classics
released = 14 November 2003 (UK)
runtime = 112 min
language = English
budget = £1,500,000
imdb_id = 0323298|

"The Mother" is a 2003 British film directed by Roger Michell.

Tagline: "It can take a lifetime to feel alive".

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.

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

External links

* [http://www.sonyclassics.com/themother/ Official site]
*imdb title|id=0323298|title=The Mother
*rotten-tomatoes|id=1132642-mother|title=The Mother