Mothering Sunday Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employers, Mr and Mrs Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend an afternoon of abandon with her secret lover, Paul (Josh O’Connor), the boy from the manor house nearby who is 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.

Drama

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  Odessa Young

  Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, The Damned

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  Josh O’Connor

  Disclosure Day, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

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  Sope Dirisu

  Silent Night, Mr. Malcolm's List

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  Patsy Ferran

  Later The War

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  Emma D’Arcy

  House of the Dragon (Series)

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  Glenda Jackson

  The Great Escaper, The Great Escapers

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  Olivia Colman

  The Roses, Paddington in Peru

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  Colin Firth

  Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg 2026 Project

Who is making Mothering Sunday – Crew List

The film's writer Alice Birch last penned The End We Start From and The Wonder.

Director

Eva Husson

Screenwriter

Alice Birch

Production – What we know about the Mothering Sunday

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Key Facts

• Based on the bestselling novel by Graham Swift.

Movie Filming Timeline: Production Status Updates

Aug 2021

Completed

Changed Mothering Sunday movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

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