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British children hide Mother's death. Then, Father returns.British children hide Mother's death. Then, Father returns.British children hide Mother's death. Then, Father returns.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 3 nominations total
Margaret Leclere
- Elsa
- (as Margaret Brooks)
Louis Sheldon
- Hubert
- (as Louis Sheldon Williams)
Phoebe Nicholls
- Gerty
- (as Sarah Nicholls)
Clare Davidson
- Miss Bailey
- (as Claire Davidson)
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- TriviaThree of the seven juvenile actors and actresses who play the Hook children, Margaret Leclere (Elsa), Pamela Franklin (Diana), and Phoebe Nicholls (Gerty), went on to further success and developed enduring movie and television careers as adults. Mark Lester also had later successes, most famously in the title role in Oliver! (1968). He gave up acting in the early 1980s and became an osteopath.
- GoofsIn the subsequent shots after the mother dies at the beginning, the position of her head changes three times and her mouth changes from closed to partially open.
- Quotes
Charlie Hook: When your mother died, I mean, what happened about the funeral?
Hubert: There wasn't one. We buried her in the garden.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Lionpower from MGM (1967)
- SoundtracksOur Mother's House (Main Title)
Written and Performed by Georges Delerue Et Son Orchestre
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OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE is one weird psychological ride. Here we have a family living in a gloomy Victorian house with a reclusive, Bible-thumping invalid mother--surely fertile ground for insanity or incest or both. However, what we have is a painful portrait of adolescence in the older children and the horrors of navigating through an adult world. Left to their own devices after the mother's untimely death, the children do their best to survive, being molded by the mother's unstable religious ramblings. However, things take a turn for the worst when the absentee father arrives, shattering some illusions crucial to the little family's identity. . .
I've never seen anything like this film(the recent film THE CEMENT GARDEN comes to mind, but that film takes an entirely different direction with an incest theme), one in which children literally elevate their mother to the status of religious icon. This situation is simultaneously chilling and pathetic. This one is for people who enjoy character-driven psychological dramas.
I've never seen anything like this film(the recent film THE CEMENT GARDEN comes to mind, but that film takes an entirely different direction with an incest theme), one in which children literally elevate their mother to the status of religious icon. This situation is simultaneously chilling and pathetic. This one is for people who enjoy character-driven psychological dramas.
- thomandybish
- May 30, 2001
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- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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