The Mother is a 2003 British film directed by Roger Michell.

Tagline: It can take a lifetime to feel alive.

Mother is a 1996 movie directed and written by Albert Brooks, and starring Brooks and Debbie Reynolds. The comedy involves a failed science fiction writer who attempts to improve his relations with his mother by moving in with her.

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Single and lusty Asha's (Rekha) affairs with three men (Randhir Kapoor, Rakesh Roshan, Jeetendra) lands her with a baby-girl, and she must relocate to distant Mauritius to start life anew. She makes up a story about her husband, Mr. Brittania, while admitting her daughter in school, heroically saving lives of numerous Indians and being unable to save himself. Now Asha has a grown up daughter, Jiya (Sanober Kabir). She finds out that Jiya wants to marry Mrs. Chaudhary's (Shashikala) grandson, Raj (Rahat Khan). Asha's three beaus also contact her one by one that they will be coming, with their respective wives and families to tow, to visit Mauritius. Asha's past is now coming back to haunt her, and Asha must use all her wits to see herself through this crisis. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

After two failed marriages, a science fiction writer (Brooks) decides coming to terms with his mom will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with his mom (Reynolds). Written by JG

Desperate to be rid of her toddler in order to have an affair, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills Housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for. "Mother" is a dark and funny look at neglect, and what it really means to get what we want. Written by Anonymous

Clyde King, a toy store employee whose hobbies include making wooden toys and stalking women, is coveted by the female owner of one of the biggest toy companies in the world. She is enchanted by King's hand-carved toys, and she delegates the recruitment of the toy-maker to her second-in-command, Lyle "Skippy" Burns. However, King will not join her company as she reminds him of his mother. She becomes the subject of bizarre fantasies in which "Mother," the toy company owner as imagined by King, brow-beats and humiliates him. Discovering King's predeliction for leaving the toy store to stalk women, Skippy first tries to entice Clyde into signing an employemnt contract by supplying him with women, even going as far to dress himself up in drag as a prostitute. But every time he sets King up with a woman, the encounter ends disastrously, so Skippy finally decides to kill him. Written by Jon C. Hopwood

Mrs. Ellis tries to maintain happiness and comfort in her family, even at the cost of her own happiness. When the family comes on hard times, she sells her personal belongings, yet her family reacts ungratefully, and her husband becomes romantically involved with a client at his architectural firm. The family seems on the verge of ruin when Mrs. Ellis gets an opportunity to put things right. Written by Jim Beaver

Years ago a city's populace was forced underground by chemical warfare. Drugged by the totalitarian government and forced to become slaves, the working masses started re-purifying the earth's surface with shoddy, antiquated equipment. Decades passed. Enter the present - The workers have no idea that the surface chemicals are leaking down and slowly poisoning them. As the population grows weaker they are disposed of and their work areas are sealed off. No records of their deaths are kept. Mother, the government overseer of one small group of workers, faces a dilemma when it is time to kill her flock. Does she obey the dictatorship or save the lives of those she has sworn to protect? Written by Stephen Ciavardini

May is an ordinary grandmother from the North of England. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Stuck in an unfamiliar city, far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old lady whose life is more or less over. Until, that is, she embarks on a passionate affair with Darren, a man half her age who is renovating her son's house and sleeping with her daughter. Written by Sujit R. Varma