This is a great movie if you hate people.... I loved it. This well crafted piece succeeds in delivering a fairly original film that is utterly compelling and completely engrossing... and, yet, there isn't a character in this film that is remotely likable. I mean, the family portrayed in this film put the "func" in "dysfunctional." Actually, they put the "dysfunctional" in "dysfunctional." Imagine your recently widowed, senior citizen mother, who you can't stand, coming to stay with you.... and then carries on a very May-December romance with the builder working on your home! Well, not really a romance per se... no more like doing the big-time nasty-nasty whenever the opportunity arises. Oh yeah - and the builder boinking Mom is also boinking her thoroughly unpleasant daughter. Just when you think it couldn't get much more insane, the bitter, sour children find out about Mother's little (ahem!) affair via her sketchbook, which Mommy has been filling in with very crude, very explicit drawings of her builder and herself in various illicit sex acts - including one really crude piece boldly portraying her performing oral sex on the brawny builder. And you thought your mother was bad! Anne Reid, who portrays the mother, deserved some kind of award... when do you see a woman over 50 on screen, naked and engaging in very (I mean VERY) explicit sex scenes. I say good for her. If you went by mainstream media you'd never know that anyone over 50 ever has sex... unless it's in the context of a Viagra ad that reduces older people having sex as something humorous - something to be giggled at. Trust me, when you see Mother and young builder get it on, nobody will giggle.
Review of The Mother
