The Mother (film)

Plot

May (played by Anne Reid) is an ordinary grandmother from Northern England. When her elderly husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Trapped in an unfamiliar city, far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible older woman whose life is more or less over; she embarks on a sexual affair with Darren (Daniel Craig), a much younger, married handyman who is renovating her son's house and who is also her daughter's lover. As her sexual desire turns into emotional longing, May unwittingly embroils herself in a point-of-no-return situation, with devastating results for all those surrounding her.

Cast

Anne Reid – May, mother to Bobby and Paula, widow of Toots

Daniel Craig – Darren, Bobby's best friend and Paula's lover, a handyman

Peter Vaughan – Toots, May's husband and Bobby and Paula's father

Danira Gović - Au Pair

Steven Mackintosh – Bobby, son of Toots and May, and brother to Paula

Cathryn Bradshaw – Paula, daughter of Toots and May, and sister to Bobby

Anna Wilson-Jones – Helen, Bobby's estranged wife

Harry Michell – Harry, Bobby and Helen's son

Rosie Michell – Rosie, Bobby and Helen's daughter

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 Reid2003 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