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.
international title: | The Mother |
original title: | The Mother |
country: | United Kingdom |
sales agent: | Renaissance Films |
year: | 2003 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Roger Michell |
film run: | 112' |
release date: | UK 14/11/2003, GR 28/11/2003, AT 18/12/2003, IR 16/01/2004, IT 16/01/2004, SE 20/02/2004, DK 05/03/2004, NO 05/03/2004, FR 10/03/2004, NL 06/05/2004, ES 28/05/2004, CZ 17/06/2004, BE 14/07/2004 |
screenplay: | Hanif Kureishi |
cast: | Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Cathryn Bradshaw, Steven Mackintosh, Anna Wilson-Jones, Oliver Ford Davies, Peter Vaughan, Rosie Michell |
cinematography by: | Alwin Kuchler |
film editing: | Nicolas Gaster |
art director: | Mark Tildesley, Mark Digby, Michelle Day |
costumes designer: | Natalie Ward |
music: | Jeremy Sams |
producer: | Kevin Loader, David M Thompson, Tracey Scoffield, Angus Finney, Stephen Evans |
production: | Free Range Films, BBC Films, Renaissance Films |
distributor: | Renaissance Films, Lucky Red (IT), Vertigo (ES), Concorde Filmverleih GmbH (DE), UFD (FR), Odeon (GR), Hollywood Classic Entertainment (CZ) |