When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences.
Acting
Sinéad Cusack's magnificent, unhinged maternal force of nature
Writing
Genuinely painful mother-son humiliation sequences
Director
Mark Lamprell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rose Byrne was 21 playing a uni student here, two years before her breakout in Star Wars Episode II. She steals every scene she's barely in.
This bombed hard in Australia but became a minor cult hit on UK television, where Sinéad Cusack's theatrical background played better than the broad comedy marketing suggested.
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