The Mother

The Mother is a 2003 British film directed by Roger Michell. May (played by Anne Reid) is an ordinary grandmother from Northern England. When her 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 old lady whose life is more or less over. She embarks on a sexual affair with Darren (Daniel... more

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  • Nov 14, 2003

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Roger Michell

Roger Michell (5 June 1956) is an English theatre, television and film director. He was born in Pretoria but spent significant parts of his childhood in Beirut, Damascus and Prague as his father was a diplomat. He was educated at Clifton College where he became a member of Brown's house in 1968....

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