Thora Hird weaponizes guilt like a nuclear bomb in this 66-minute emotional cage match.
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
Acting
Thora Hird's Mrs. Hopkins: passive-aggressive genius.
Direction
Frears traps you in Hopkins' suffocating flat.
Writing
Smith's script weaponizes every awkward silence.
Director
Stephen Frears
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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