
Feature film — 2021
Mothering Sunday (2021)
On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.
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A high-signal pick with 140 votes.
Number 9 Films / Film4 Productions / BFI / Lipsync Productions / ZDF/Arte
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Director: Eva Husson
On screen
Cast & crew

Odessa Young
Jane Fairchild

Josh O'Connor
Paul Sheringham

Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
Donald

Patsy Ferran
Milly

Emma D'Arcy
Emma Hobday

Glenda Jackson
Jane (Older)

Olivia Colman
Mrs Clarrie Niven

Colin Firth
Mr Godfrey Niven
Nathan Reeve
Dick
Samuel Barlow
Young Paul
Dexter Raggatt
Freddy
Charlie Oscar
Ethel
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