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28 & 30 April 2025

IFI@BrieryGap | Four Mothers

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28 & 30 April 2025

Time

8pm

15A

“It’s a love story, but it’s also not a love story”, says Edward (James McArdle), when asked by interviewers about his soon-to-be-published novel. The same is true of Darren Thornton’s follow-up to A Date For Mad Mary (2016), a comedy of great sweetness and charm focusing on the bond between a boy and his mother.

Edward, gay and single, is attempting to juggle requests for interviews and plans for book tours with his responsibilities caring for his widowed mother Alma (Fionnula Flanagan), who is recovering from a stroke. As he agonises over these decisions, complications arise when his friends leave their mothers (Paddy Glynn, Stella McCusker, Dearbhla Molloy) on his doorstep as they jet off to foreign climes for a Pride parade. The intrusion of these eccentric women helps Edward and Alma to realise the strength of their own relationship.

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Fionnula Flanagan excels as one of four Dublin partying matriarchs on a road trip The experienced cast sell each of their characters with gusto in a warm Irish film that only a congenital malcontent could dislike

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Donald Clark | The Irish Times

Credits

Director: Darren Thornton

Starring: James McArdle, Fionnula Flanagan, Dearbhla Molloy, Paddy Glynn, Stella McCusker, Niamh Cusack, Gaetan Garcia, Rory O'Neill, Gearoid Farrelly, Gordon Hickey

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