Main Cast: Sinéad Cusack, Rose Byrne, Sacha Horler
Release Year: 2000
Country: AU
Run Time: 95 minutes
Plot
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) screenwriter Mark Lamprell makes his directorial debut with this understated drama about a middle-aged woman who is looking to reinvent her life. Frances Regina Aileen Nano Kennedy, AKA Frank Ryan (Sinead Cusack) is a devoutly Catholic widow with two grown children and a few grandchildren. She is also bored to tears with her life. Meanwhile, her college-aged son David (Matthew Newton) is utterly smitten with Jenny (Rose Byrne), the beautiful girlfriend of his buddy Mick (Nicholas Bishop). When Frank decides to take art courses at the same university that her son attends, David is unenthusiastic. Moreover, so is her crusty professor Mortlock (Sam Neil), who believes that older students take places from younger ones. This film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
Anne Beauchamp - Art Director, Christine King - Casting, Edie Kurzer - Costume Designer, Topher Dow - First Assistant Director, Mark Lamprell - Director, Nicholas Beauman - Editor, Peter Best - Composer (Music Score), Michael Philips - Production Designer, Brian J. Breheny - Cinematographer, John Winter - Producer, Phaedon Vass - Producer, John Dennison - Sound/Sound Designer, Tony Vaccher - Sound/Sound Designer, Mark Lamprell - Screenwriter
My Mother Frank is a multi-award-winning Australianfilm released in 2000.
Plot outline
David Kennedy is preparing to go to university. His mother, Francis (Frank) is a widow and has very little social life. David tells her that she should get out more and much to his surprise, Frank enrolls at the same university. Frank falls for her poetry tutor, who hates mature students. David falls for his best friend's girlfriend, who isn't interested in the least.
