Anne Reid and Daniel Craig are very good in this movie. The whole thing was kind of hard to watch because, sex aside, there wasn't much fun going on and all of the people in it have serious problems with life and with each other. It was believable, and Reid did have serious problems adjusting to life without her husband even if she has happy enough to see him go. But she didn't have enough going for her as a person to make the movie more satisfying. She didn't care for her kids when they were young, and was very self-absorbed, and even though she did the minimum to keep her kids safe, they now show little care for her. If she would have been a really good artist, for example, or have some other more successful social aspect, then the attitude she showed towards her children would have made the movie more interesting. As it was there was an element of boredom throughout the film that made it uninteresting to watch.
Review of The Mother
