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The Mother
Directed by
Roger Michell
2003
1h 52m
R
Drama
,
Romance
6.7
78%
63%
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A woman has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
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Cast of The Mother
Anne Reid
May
Daniel Craig
Darren
Peter Vaughan
Toots
Steven Mackintosh
Bobby
Cathryn Bradshaw
Paula
Anna Wilson-Jones
Helen
Danira Gović
Au Pair
Izabella Telezynska
Polish Cleaner
Oliver Ford Davies
Bruce
Jonah Coombes
Estate Agent
The Mother Reviews
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
It challenges you to figure out how you feel about the people on the screen -- emotionally, intellectually, morally.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
It sounds like the stuff of soap operas or bad porn, but Kureishi's script is too intelligent and empathetic to titillate.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
A troubling film about the need to be wanted.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Though their selfishness is repellent, the characters feel strikingly real.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It shows how people play a role and grow comfortable with it, and how that role is confused with the real person inside. And then it shows the person inside, frightened and pitiful and fighting for survival.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A soap opera with guts: a movie that takes a familiar situation ... and turns it into something rawer and more sexy.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
[Michell] shows what can be accomplished on a small budget with a brilliant script and a cast that rarely makes a false move.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
It neither reassures nor insults its audience. These days, a film that doesn't insult your intelligence is absolutely refreshing.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
A well-intentioned but flawed British drama that presents a sexual relationship between a sixtysome-thing widow and a much-younger man, then sidesteps nearly all the issues it's pretending to address.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's an awkward, discomfiting film, at times floridly melodramatic, at others downright gamy, and yet it gets at truths of human behavior that few movies think to touch.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
There is in The Mother a rich understanding of where old age takes you. Along with the myth that seniors don't have sex drives, the film dispels a larger one: that the years bring wisdom.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Bracing but superb.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
You may not enjoy The Mother (I certainly didn't), but it's a movie so heavy on truth, its spell cannot be denied.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Reid's magnificent portrayal of the indomitable May has been insufficiently appreciated both here and in England. She is nothing short of uncanny.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
Reid -- like the Katharine Hepburn of Summertime and Brigitte Mira of Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul -- transforms herself before our very eyes.
Observer
Rex Reed
An intriguing study of the interlocking patterns of human lives that also makes for a superb movie, mature and well-observed, that dwells in the viewer's memory long after the final frame fades.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The script here is by Hanif Kureishi, and Michell navigates its subtleties with ease.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Reid ... is a discovery -- as believable and naturally sexual an older woman as Joan Collins is a caricature of one.
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