Project Detail

Mother's Milk

Synopsis

A coruscating drama, based on an award winning novel, which explores the troubled relationships between the various members of an English family over a long summer when Eleanor, the stroke-afflicted old mother decides to give away her beautiful house in Provence to a New Age Foundation run by an Irish charlatan rather than to her own son and his young family. The story is told from the point-of-view firstly of Robert, an eight year old boy, then his increasingly drunken father, Patrick and also finally Mary, his long-suffering mother as they all struggle to come to terms with the loss of something they love desperately but increasingly realize will soon be gone forever. It is both a funny and moving tale of family discord.

Details

Year
2012
Type of project
Features
Running time
98 mins
Director
Gerald Fox
Producer
Gerald Fox
Co-Producer
Zara D'Abo
Executive Producer
Melvyn Bragg, David Wilkinson
Editor
John Street
Screenwriter
Gerald Fox, Edward St. Aubyn
Director of Photography
Steve Haskett
Production Designer
Michel Rollant
Principal cast
Jack Davenport, Diana Quick, Adrian Dunbar

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Guerilla Films

35 Thornbury Road
Isleworth
TW7 4LQ
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8758 1716
Fax: +44 (0)20 8758 9364

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