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Mothers & Daughters (2004)

Mothers & Daughters poster
Directed by
David Conolly
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom

How it feels

A group of Londoners navigate their tangled relationships with each other and with their mothers. Their secrets and tensions come to a head during a chaotic dinner party.

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What happens

Mothers & Daughters is a 2004 independent film written and directed by British duo Hannah Davis and David Conolly. It is a story of Londoners connected by family, friends and a certain therapist who brings all her patients’ problems back to their mothers. Lives start to unravel during an eventful dinner party where the cook spoils the food, a coke-headed model flirts with a married vicar, a secret affair is exposed, old family wounds are reopened and one meddling mother drops by to cause even more trouble. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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