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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404952591
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404952594
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 28154
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The movies have their share of gray-haired men romancing young women, but the spectacle of a sexual relationship between an old woman and a young man is still exotic enough for The Mother to startle audiences. Newly widowed Anne Reid, sixtyish, finds herself disenchanted with her indifferent children, and drawn to a studly handyman (Daniel Craig, from Sylvia). The observant directorial hand of Roger Michell guides them through some brutally frank sex scenes, without ignoring the psychological mess that underlies it all. It comes as no surprise that this scenario springs from the mind of Hanif Kureishi, who's been poking at British propriety since My Beautiful Laundrette. The film offers no characters to actually like, which makes it a bitter course to navigate. But Anne Reid's gutsy performance, which carries zero trace of glamour, is certainly a bold venture that asks no pity. --Robert Horton
Description:
Anne Reid stars as May, an ordinary grandmother from the North of England. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Stuck in an unfamiliar city, far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old lady whose life is more or less over. Until, that is, she embarks on a passionate affair with Darren (Daniel Craig), a man half her age who is renovating her son's house and sleeping with her daughter. Directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Changing Lanes). Written by Academy Award® nominated writer Hanif Kureishi (Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for My Beautiful Launderette).
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fine condition, but somewhat expurgated version
Arrived in "as new" shape, just as advertised by the seller. No gripes there. But, this version had been stripped of a particularly steamy scene (viewed in a previously rented DVD) which is one of the reasons that I had ordered a copy for myself. There was no indication that the DVD had been edited to remove scene(s).
Other than that, this is a particularly riveting story about family dynamics, including a sexually repressed senior family member who is widowed and who longs for male ... Read More
Rating: - Not your typical mother!
This was a little different - she's not your typical mother! She's not rich or sexy, etc. - just human. Good film.
Rating:  - i'm still queasy
i became a daniel craig fan after road to perdition, but didn't find him attractive until casino royale, and then i had to search out his other movies. this choice of role was heartbreakingly difficult to understand. it's awful enough to see an older actor in bed with a young, lissome woman, but -- and this is sexist, i know and i'm sorry!-- i was totally turned off by daniel craig and a woman who looks every bit of her age, plus some b/c of the recent tragedy of losing her husband. this is no sophia ... Read More
Rating: - The Mother
This is a good alternative to the bombard of Hollywood films. It potrays beutifully and naturally the meaning of love and the loneliness of the elderly. I live in one of the Asian countries where the famili members still have strong emotional bound to one another. Watching this film, I came to realize how lonely one's life can be when one grows old in the so called modern countries. Because things are so modernized, things have got so mechanical, human relation is no exception. This happens to the mother ... Read More
Rating: - Old Girl Gone Wild
Ah, yes: The frailty of the human condition. One moment a domiciled, husband-doting grandmother; the next, a moaning lover coupling with a man half her age. Director Roger Michell reminds us we're all capable of behaving outside the box with his moody film, THE MOTHER.
Sixtysomething May (Anne Reid), recently widowed, decides to move to London to be closer to her two adult children. While getting closer to the kiddos--learning more about them, and herself--she finds herself physically attracted ... Read More
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