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

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Sales Company

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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