Four Mothers
- 2025 film
Heart-warming comedy drama following one man juggling four very different mothers during a chaotic weekend after his friends unexpectedly leave them in his care. Stars James McArdle, Fionnula Flanagan, Stella McCusker, Paddy Glynn, Gaetan Garcia and more.
- New film - out now
Press clippings
Four Mothers: comic spark shines through the farce in this pertly scripted crowd-pleaser
Director Darren Thornton's charming Irish remake of Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch (2008) follows the misadventures of Edward, a people-pleasing debut novelist who is left to entertain his friends' elderly mothers while they jet off to Maspalomas Pride.
Nick Davis, British Film Institute, 3rd April 2025Darren Thornton on his tragicomedy Four Mothers
Irish director Darren Thornton tells us about his new adaptation of the Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch, which sees a novelist grappling with his ageing mother and three other eccentric elderly mums.
Josh Slater-Williams, British Film Institute, 1st April 2025