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My Mother and Other Strangers

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Hattie Morahan and Michael Nevin in My Mother and Other Strangers (2016)
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In 1943, the Coyne family and their neighbours struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish.In 1943, the Coyne family and their neighbours struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish.In 1943, the Coyne family and their neighbours struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish.

  • Stars
    • Ciarán Hinds
    • Michael Nevin
    • Hattie Morahan
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    1.9K
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    • Stars
      • Ciarán Hinds
      • Michael Nevin
      • Hattie Morahan
    • 29User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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      • 1 nomination total

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    Ciarán Hinds
    Ciarán Hinds
    • Older Francis
    • 2016
    Michael Nevin
    • Francis Coyne
    • 2016
    Hattie Morahan
    Hattie Morahan
    • Rose Coyne
    • 2016
    Owen McDonnell
    Owen McDonnell
    • Michael Coyne
    • 2016
    Mia Carlin
    • Kate Coyne
    • 2016
    Fiona O'Shaughnessy
    Fiona O'Shaughnessy
    • Sally Quinn
    • 2016
    Isaac Heslip
    Isaac Heslip
    • Seamie Brady
    • 2016
    Eileen O'Higgins
    Eileen O'Higgins
    • Emma Coyne
    • 2016
    Des McAleer
    • Ned Hanlon
    • 2016
    Gavin Drea
    Gavin Drea
    • Barney Quinn
    • 2016
    Ryan McParland
    Ryan McParland
    • Mickey Joe Hanlon
    • 2016
    Aaron Staton
    Aaron Staton
    • Captain Ronald Dreyfuss
    • 2016
    Frankie McCafferty
    Frankie McCafferty
    • Jemmy Fox
    • 2016
    Kerr Logan
    Kerr Logan
    • Failey
    • 2016
    Seamus O'Hara
    Seamus O'Hara
    • Davey Hanlon
    • 2016
    Antonia Campbell-Hughes
    Antonia Campbell-Hughes
    • Kettie Brady
    • 2016
    Christina Nelson
    • Nellie Fox
    • 2016
    Ruairi O'Connor
    • Andrew Black
    • 2016
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    9gaarondawson-39644

    Lost for Words, Again and Again

    I have watched this many times and I always walk away stunned. Hattie Morgan's performance is absolutely brilliant. I can feel her emotions overcome me as I watch the performance. For a few hours I am completely lost to today as I am transported to WWII-era Northern Ireland. I am trapped in these beautiful, loving surroundings but ache for more.

    The characters and story lines couldn't be anymore absorbing than the are. This series is a treasure of both talent and emotion. I am a connoisseur of British wartime dramas and this is one of the very best I've seen. The production value is on par with Foyle's War. If you like that you will love this too.

    All that needs to be said is Bravo!
    zolazona

    Beautiful Images of Airplane and Ireland

    However, the story was leaden with its pacing and I had difficulty staying interested in the story. Maybe it is because after I got it in my head that the lead actress had too many tics with her popping eyes and mouth twisting that it became too distracting. But that is my problem, not hers.
    8frt-98135

    It Shouldn't Work, But It Does

    I found this programming surprising and even shocking. The shock is that, alone among British TV productions, it actually casts Americans in a good light. Let's face it, British BBC TV is virulently anti-American. The left-wingers control BBC just like they control CBC, PBS, etc. I've already given up watching many of the most egregious anti-American shows, like Foyle, and grit my teeth while watching others. No worries with My Mother and Other Strangers. The Americans are shown as friendly, courteous and helpful while villagers are often mean-spirited, stupid, and dishonest. They whine and complain about the American airmen who are risking their lives to preserve Moybeg's way of life and very existence. Astoundingly the show even has an American actor playing an American instead of the usual Brit with a bad accent. (Unfortunately, they cancel this out with Kate Phillips and her absolutely horrible accent. I guess two Americans in one show is too much for them). Still, what a breath of fresh air. Of course, this is not a typical British production. It is Northern Irish, not English, and the writer is 70 years, so he has more perspective on history.

    Surprisingly, the program is also an engaging drama despite its soap opera elements (including Poldark style music). Syd Field, author of the classic screen writing book, sagely observed that scenes are never good or bad; they either work or don't work. This program shouldn't work but it does. The tone, mood and pace are seductive and Hattie Morahan is just great as a earth mother woman of hidden strength and toughness. She's Mrs. Miniver who isn't afraid to threaten to shoot someone. It also succeeds in the most basic, yet difficult aspect of drama by making you believe that you are watching another time and place that actually existed. Granted, the plot has some glaring discontinuities that leave you thinking, "where did that come from?", but adult TV is so rare that it is easy to forgive.
    9KathleenK22

    When love comes along

    This is a lovely, thoughtful story. It is about a family in Ireland during the Second World War who have to contend with an American air base being set up adjacent to their quiet little village. The mother is the main focus of the story who is married to a simple but good man but she yearns for more. An American soldier who is in charge of maintaining a good relationship with the village lights a fire within her. The other characters such as her daughter add to the tale with her wakening to love and all it entails. The son is the narrator looking back across the years and told through the eyes of a child. As can be guessed the main theme is love with all its complications. There are other colourful characters like the townsfolk who struggle to deal with the American presence. The ending suggests there is more to come as we still need answers for the husband and the pub and the mother and the American.
    5Prismark10

    Yanks

    This five part drama set during the second world war in rural Ireland follows the fortune of the Coyne family after a US air force base has been set up nearby.

    Narrated by the grown up son, Francis, the focus is on Rose Coyne the displaced Englishwoman, A loyal wife, mother of three children who has left a glamorous and educated world behind to be in Ireland with her husband Michael who runs a pub. Michael might run a few scams but he is a decent man and but the dullness she feels in her life hits home when she encounters the thoughtful and educated US air base liaison officer Captain Ronald Dreyfus.

    At first they have casual chit chats, the Americans are seen as being brash and their presence in the village meets with resentment from the locals and it is Captain's Dreyfus's job to smooth things over. Over time both feel passion for each other which they try to keep in check as both are married.

    This is a nice twee drama, not very original and rather predictable. The final episode hints that there is more to come, I think the story should had stopped at the fifth episode.

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      Actress Hattie Morahan was two-months pregnant at the start of filming in January 2016. She said it was only near the end of filming (in April with her at five-months pregnant) that they had to do "a bit of clever shooting".
    • Connections
      Referenced in Les Simpson: Krusty the Clown (2018)

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    • Release date
      • November 1, 2016 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ma mare en temps de guerra
    • Filming locations
      • Northern Ireland, UK
    • Production company
      • Grafton House Productions
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      • Stereo
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      • 16:9 HD

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