is a 2003 British
film directed by Roger Michell.
Plot
May (played by Anne
Reid) is an ordinary grandmother from North 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 Craig), a married
handyman half her age who is renovating her son's house and is also her
daughter's lover. As her sexual desire soon turns to emotional longing, May
unwittingly embroils herself into a point-of-no-return situation with
devastating results for all those surrounding her.
Cast
Anne Reid – May,
mother to Bobby and Paula, widow of Toots
Daniel Craig –
Darren, Bobby's best friend and Paula's lover, a handyman.
Peter Vaughan –
Toots, May's husband and Bobby and Paula's father
Steven Mackintosh –
Bobby, son of Toots and May, and brother to Paula
Cathryn Bradshaw –
Paula, daughter of Toots and May, and sister to Bobby
Anna Wilson-Jones –
Helen, Bobby's estranged wife
Harry Michell –
Harry, Bobby and Helen's son
Rosie Michell –
Rosie, Bobby and Helen's daughter
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