The Mother (2003) Reviews & Ratings

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The Mother reviews

The Mother holds a 6.0/10 average from 72 TMDB ratings.

This is quite a tough film to watch. Not so much because of the subject matter, but because you just know there is an inevitability about the conclusion which is going to leave everyone damaged! Anne Reid is good as the eponymous character ("Mary") who loses her husband and finds that she just cannot go home. She spends her time between her son and his family and with her daughter and her young son. The former is ha…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

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