Project Detail

The Mother

Synopsis

May is 65. An ordinary granny from the suburbs. When her husband dies she finds herself thrown upon the mercy of her far-too-busy metropolitan children.

Stuck in London, far from home, her kids abusing or avoiding her, she feels that life for her is more or less over.

Until... The granny from the sticks, the old lady you don't even notice in the supermarket, the broken woman who's life is finished, falls headlong, suddenly, rapturously, disarmingly, girlishly, carnally in love.

With a man half her age. (Who just happens to be fucking her daughter as well)

From the acid pen of Hanif Kureishi comes another brilliant and shocking slice of modern metropolitan life.

Details

Year: 2003
Type of film: Features
Running time: 112 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Roger Michell
Producer: David M Thompson, Tracey Scoffield, Angus Finney, Stephen Evans
Editor: Nicolas Gaster
Screenwriter: Hanif Kureishi
Director of Photography: Alwin Kuchler
Principal cast: Daniel Craig, Anne Reid

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Free Range Films

36 Marshall Street
London, W1V 1LL
UK

T +44 (0)20 7287 5110

Sales Company

Renaissance Films

34-35 Berwick Street
London W1F 8RP
UK

T 44 (0)20 7287 5190

info@renaissance-films.com

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www.renaissance-films.com

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