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'{{More citations needed|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = The Mother | image = The_Mother_movie.jpg | caption = US Theatrical poster | director = [[Roger Michell]] | producer = [[Kevin Loader]] | writer = [[Hanif Kureishi]] | starring = [[Anne Reid]]<br>[[Peter Vaughan]]<br>[[Daniel Craig]]<br>[[Danira Gović]] | music = [[Jeremy Sams]] | cinematography = [[Alwin H. Küchler]] | editing = [[Nicolas Gaster]] | studio = [[BBC Films]] | distributor = [[Momentum Pictures]] | released = {{Start date|2003|11|14|df=y}} | runtime = 112 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = £1.5 million }} '''''The Mother''''' is a 2003 British [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film directed by [[Roger Michell]]. ==Plot== May (played by [[Anne Reid]]) is a woman from Northern [[England]]. Her life has been constrained by the expectations of society and her husband. When her husband dies during a visit to their adult children in [[London]], she has a chance to start again and pursue her love of drawing. May is quiet but when her son Bobby tries to make her sit down and have a cup of tea she refuses, saying she might never get up. She won't become invisible like all the neighbouring grandmothers and widows. May returns to London with Bobby to Helen's horror. She initiates a sexual [[affair]] with Darren ([[Daniel Craig]]), a warm and attractive younger man who is renovating Bobby and Helen's house and who is her daughter Paula's boyfriend. Paula says he is a sweet man but weak. He has a wife and autistic son but lives in his van outside their house. Darren appears to share May's interest in art and the unlikely pair form an understanding. May moves from Bobby's house to Paula's and discovers Paula is having therapy because her mother didn't cuddle her enough. At a writing group organised by Paula, May writes a short account of being a depressed mother of two young children. It is a very public explanation, perhaps, for her lack of affection. Paula introduces her mother to Bruce, a man near May's age. Paula wants her mother to find out if Darren will leave his wife and what he thinks of her. May agrees, but can only avoid Paula's later questions. Paula stumbles upon a sketchbook filled with May's drawings of a naked man and a woman performing fellatio on him. She surmises the man is Darren, and shows the sketches to Bobby. He says it must be a fantasy but Paula thinks there is an affair, and is angry. After sex with May, Darren helps himself to medication in Helen's bathroom cabinet without caring what they are. May offers to pay for him to travel, with her, but then seeing his reluctant response says, 'what a silly idea'. Paula invites her mother and Bruce on a double date with her and Darren. May leaves when Paula makes a show of kissing Darren. Bruce pursues her. He takes her home and coerces her into having sex that she doesn't want or enjoy. May goes to Paula's but finds no comfort as Paula is pleased to think her mother and Bruce were probably intimate. Paula thinks Darren will leave his wife the next day as she has given him an ultimatum, and says her mother must, therefore, leave. Bobby tells Darren he must finish the conservatory or leave as he has a deadline and wants to sell the house. After they fight, Darren tries to make May perform fellatio on him but May is reluctant because he is angry. He then asks where her money is. She says it would be a plane ticket not cash and Darren loses his temper and insults her. He smashes up the conservatory. Later, Paula tells her mother that what might make her feel better would be to hit her. May agrees. Paula punches May in the face. They visit Bobby's house where Helen is showing an estate agent round. Darren is back working on the conservatory with Bobby. May has a black eye that she explains as an argument and says she 'got the message' she then says goodbye to everyone and refuses a lift to the station. May goes home, but only long enough to grab her passport. She walks away with her suitcase, sketchbooks and passport in hand. ==Cast== * [[Anne Reid]] – May, Bobby and Paula's mother, Toots' widow * [[Daniel Craig]] – Darren, Bobby's friend and Paula's lover, a skilled carpenter * [[Peter Vaughan]] – Toots, May's husband and Bobby and Paula's father * [[Danira Gović]] - Au Pair * [[Steven Mackintosh]] – Bobby, son of May and Toots, and brother to Paula * [[Cathryn Bradshaw]] – Paula, daughter of May and Toots, and sister to Bobby * [[Anna Wilson-Jones]] – Helen, Bobby's wife * [[Oliver Ford Davies]] - Bruce, an older man, May's date * [[Harry Michell]] – Harry, Bobby and Helen's son * [[Rosie Michell]] – Rosie, Bobby and Helen's daughter ==Production== [[Anne Reid]] revealed that she was so terrified at the prospect of filming sex scenes with [[Daniel Craig]] that she got drunk and then burst into tears.<ref>{{cite web |title='I had to get drunk to bed Daniel Craig': Last Tango star Anne Reid admits she was so terrified at filming sex scenes that she burst into tears |work=www.dailymail.co.uk |url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2690124/I-drunk-bed-Daniel-Craig-Last-Tango-star-Anne-Reid-admits-terrified-filming-sex-scenes-burst-tears.html |access-date=13 February 2022 }}</ref> ==Awards and honours== ===Wins=== * 2004 [[London Critics Circle Film Awards]] : ALFS Award - [[Anne Reid]] ===Nominations=== * 2004 [[BAFTA Awards]] : BAFTA Film Award - [[Anne Reid]] * 2004 [[British Independent Film Award]] - [[Anne Reid]] * 2004 [[Cinemanila International Film Festival]] : Lino Brocka Award - [[Roger Michell]] * [[European Film Awards]] : 2004 Audience Award - [[Daniel Craig]] and [[Anne Reid]] : 2003 European Film Award - [[Anne Reid]] and [[Hanif Kureishi]] * 2004 [[London Critics Circle Film Awards]] : ALFS Award - [[Daniel Craig]], [[Hanif Kureishi]], Film of the Year * 2004 [[Shanghai International Film Festival]] : Golden Goblet - [[Roger Michell]] ==External links== * [http://www.sonyclassics.com/themother/ Official site] * {{IMDb title|id=0323298|title=The Mother}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|id=1132642-mother|title=The Mother}} {{Roger Michell}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mother, The}} [[Category:2003 films]] [[Category:2003 drama films]] [[Category:BBC Film films]] [[Category:British drama films]] [[Category:Films directed by Roger Michell]] [[Category:Films set in London]] [[Category:Films with screenplays by Hanif Kureishi]] [[Category:Sony Pictures Classics films]] [[Category:British films]] {{2000s-UK-film-stub}}'