with the death of her infirmed husband and may and an old woman face a future in an urban world that view her a invisible and dead from the neck down and and unwelcome in the pseudo sophisticate yuppie home of her son and bobby and his shallow wife and helen and and paula and a self absorb and cling and and minimally talented daughter . the central family be anything but warm and supportive and and understanding of her new and tragic stage in life with the death of her husband . the mother be a quiet character study that point up how in some society and the elder parent be both unwelcome and a burden to grow child whose career and status seek overshadow all else . a may come to realize the world be still important to her and the lonely widow find her libido reawaken and alive with her daughter boyfriend and a carpenter and rough sort . may embark on an uninhibited sexual affair with darren whose character be sympathetic to her at first and but his flawed nature be quickly reveal through the pressure of the woman who surround him . this be the kind of role hollywood actress of a certain age whine be never write for them and but would never appear in because the film frankness and overt sexuality and unglamorous wardrobe and little makeup and and social commentary on the vapidness of the very society most film industry woman be enchrenched . the performance by the lead actress and anne reid range from quiet to giddy and her interpretation blossom on screen from the drab widow to a sexually alive and free middle age woman without face lift and hair extension and and liposuction . she bar more than her soul for the screen . daniel craig be the enable handyman and derrek who bed both mother and daughter . he turn in another stellar performance that be at first sympathetic to the widow situation and but in the end be without redemption a his true nature unfold and he be literally the rooster in a hen house . his aimless character inability to say no to the ex wife and boring girlfriend and and her mother be blame a the root of his ineffectual existence . while good with his hand at build a conservatory and he be unable to construct meaning in his life . one of the best film from britain in year and it be simply adult in it storyline . the mother be the rare kind of film that be perhaps too honest for american audience to tolerate have no car chase and no bling and no rap soundtrack to drown out the cretin performance by tv starlet and buff studmuffins . the mother reflect how the age baby boomer be now disposable people that offspring be willing to overlook and send to the retirement home and and get out of the way . may doesn not know what to do a she be make alive by darren and isn not willing to go to the old folk home and and find her kid be more conservative than she ever be at their age .