Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Clevercell Very disappointing...

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

fiona_r_lamb A Mother's Son was shown on American PBS TV in April 2015. I watched it back to back without stopping. Bit like a book you can't put down, total page turner.At first I wondered if it was trying to be another Broadchurch as it's set in a seaside town and it's got some big name British actors featured but it was more straightforward and less convoluted.I enjoyed it immensely; all the actors were superb especially Hermione Norris, whom I last saw in Val McDermid's mystery series Wire in the Blood and before that Cold Feet. This character was totally different to both those and totally relatable. I kept thinking what if this was my son or daughter? How would I react? I hope I never know. Also Martin Clune is so typecast to me as Doc Martin I could hardly see past that but tried very hard and in the end succeeded. The mother of the dead girl, Annabelle Apsion, is also in Doc Martin and Call the Midwife and even though she was only in this show for a few minutes her grief and numbness shone - mesmerising performance.The only niggle I have is that the mother looked into the internet search history of her son to find lots of violent porno references and I wish they had elaborated on this topic/influence/cause as this is something I'm sure many parents are having a hard time dealing with in today's instant world when porn is simply a click of the button away.Very believable and well done to all involved.

Domenico Scarlatti My wife and I were spellbound. This has engaging characters; a subtle plot and excellent performances.The reason that the plot is so mesmerising is that it is so feasible. It is totally believable that a young boy could panic and do something, which he then sees is stupid. It is totally believable that the family and step family will act as they did. The intra-family tensions have an inevitability,which mirrors real life.As the two sides of the family start to fragment under the pressure of suspicion the feeling is that, like a Greek tragedy, they may not want to do so but nothing can stop it happening.There is excellent directing and first rate performances both from the lead actors and the young actors who play the family.I saw it as a single piece, rather than the original two. It is better viewed as a single whole! We would absolutely recommend this!

trapp_p I have just finished watching 'A Mother's Son' on the ABC in Australia. It was shown as a single 2 hour story and I think that helped maintain the tension. I am at a loss to work out what program one of my fellow reviewers was watching, perhaps the fact that he remembers 'Billy Cotton's Bandstand' is an indication of his age (we are talking 1950's here), but the plot was certainly not 'East Enders' and 'over the top'. The other review pretty well sums up the movie, it was tightly written and extremely well acted. It is typical of the current crop of UK drama, good casts, good scripts and a big dose of conflicting emotions. In many ways it was similar to another excellent production "Broadbeach", although that was a much longer drama and more complicated plot-wise. Room for a lot of extra red herrings. I agree that the tension was well maintained, I could understand the mixed emotions which Rosie felt, although I was pretty sure by half way through that she was backing the wrong horse; her son was the culprit, or at least an accomplice.

badajoz-1 This was hyped up as gripping - NO IT WAS RUBBISH! The plot was thin, the characters uninteresting and straight out of the East Enders over-emotional teleland, the writing way way over the top, the direction just plagiarised 'The Killing,' and the sheer boredom of it all sent you to bed screaming at today's audiences and so-called TV critics that are prepared to put up with such awful cr**. There might not have been a golden age of TV forty years ago, but this rubbish would not be able to stand comparison with 'Billy Cotton's Bandshow'! Lazy, repetitive, shallow, police episodes absolute crud, I cannot go on. But I will poke a last dig - How many times in Episode 1 did the script include the line 'Are you alright?' - ten, fifty, a hundred?