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Four Mothers (2024)

Comedy | 89 minutes
3,12 4 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 89 minuten

Country: Ireland

Directed by: Darren Thornton

Stars: Fionnula Flanagan, James McArdle and Niamh Cusack

IMDb score: 6,8 (966)

Releasedate: 13 October 2024

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Four Mothers plot

The author Edward is caring for his elderly mother Alma and is on the verge of literary success. While preparing for his upcoming book tour, he also has to divide his time between three other older women. During a chaotic weekend, he must combine his blossoming career with four eccentric women.

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mrklm

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Since writer Edward [James McArdle] broke off his relationship with Raf [Gaetan Garcia], he has been caring for his mother Alma [Fionnula Flanagan], who has suffered a stroke and needs help with everyday activities and has lost her ability to speak. To his dismay, a group of friends decide to leave their mothers (and a foster mother) with Edward so that they can attend a Pride event abroad. Edward is now stuck with four elderly mothers. The consequences of this for Edward, Alma and their mutual relationship are central to this amusing but also moving tragicomedy about the joys and pains of growing old and the importance of communication between parents and children. Loose remake of the Italian film Pranzo Di Ferragosto/Mid-August Lunch (2008).

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His mother needs him and she counts on him. 24 hours a day. And Edward is not alone in this. His three best friends are in the same boat. They also take care of their mother. And there is something else. Just like his three best friends, Edward is homosexual. A quality that is taken for granted, a natural component of his personality and therefore not a weighty theme or special feature in the film. Refreshing.

The film is concerned with other things. With the attention that the mothers demand, for example. Or with Edward's character that gets in his way and is the reason for the plot line. Edward is extremely meek so that he is stuck with four mothers for a weekend while his three friends are partying.

Irish director Darren Thornton makes a real crowd pleaser with Four Mothers. An easily digestible comedy with dramatic complications. Not too dramatic by the way. The feeling that the film would not have a happy ending is never present in this sensitive comedy with nice humor and some light tragedy with Edward in the lead role as a self-sacrificing son and patient friend. A noble man, that Edward. I found him with his eternal tendency to always say yes and not make any decisions himself, sometimes damn irritating.

Four Mothers is a light-hearted feel-good comedy, in which main character Edward learns a life lesson in a light-hearted atmosphere. In which the four mothers also learn something. In which the partying friends discover that they have partied enough. And in which everyone is happy and satisfied at the end. Without the humor and the funny situations, this would have been a boring movie.

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