Movie · Drama · Romance

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul (Josh O'Connor) is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.

2021 · 1h 44m
Director Eva Husson

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Mothering Sunday

Drama

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul (Josh O'Connor) is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.

COMMON SENSE

Slow-burning British drama explores loss; frequent nudity.

TOMATOMETER
Average 6.6
Reviews 137
Fresh 105
Rotten 32

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Studio
Sony Pictures Classics, British Film Institute (BFI); Film4; Lipsync Productions; Number 9 Films
Released
2021
Run Time
1 hr 44 min
Rated
R for sexual content, graphic nudity and some language.
Regions of Origin
United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany
© 2021 British Film Institute

Languages

Original Audio
English, English (United Kingdom), English (Australia)
Audio

English (AD, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), English (United Kingdom) , English (United States) , Arabic , Bulgarian , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , French (France) , Hungarian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Thai , Turkish , Vietnamese

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen, to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.