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starring: Daniel Craig, Anna Wilson-Jones, Anne Reid, Peter Vaughan, Danira Govich directed by: Roger Michell See Larger Image Used Price: $4.94 Collectible Price: $50.99 Third Party New Price: $6.43 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9781404952584 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 1404952586 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: October 12, 2004 Running Time: 112 minutes Sales Rank: 16326 Studio: Sony Pictures Related Items: Obsession Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon Enduring Love (Widescreen Edition) Layer Cake (Widescreen) Sylvia see more 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 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 see more Browse for similar items by category: Drama - Genres - VHS - Video - General AAS Sony Pictures Home Entertainment - Studio Specials - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - VHS - Video - All Sony Pictures Titles General - Archives - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - VHS - Video - Drama - General