Mother Lear

May 7, 2023

0h 57m

★ 0.0

"...that way madness lies"

Overview

An irascible Shakespeare scholar with early onset dementia communicates with her caretaker daughter using the only language available to her, the text of King Lear, as the two struggle with aging, love, and their own balance of power.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Cordelia

Ava Roy

Lear

Courtney Walsh

Man in Doorway

Rush Rehm

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.

6.0

Elsa & Fred

Mar 7, 2014

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa, who convinces him it's never too late to keep enjoying life. Although he seemed resigned to a miserable bedridden existence, Fred embraces Elsa's youthful enthusiasm as she introduces him to the path of life and entertains him with outlandish stories about her past life. But when he discovers Elsa's terminally ill, Fred decides to accompany her on the trip of her dreams to the eternal city of Rome to help her fulfil a lifelong ambition.

3.3

The Caregiver

Oct 27, 2023

When a couple hires a caregiver for their disabled son, her dark past emerges, endangering everyone she encounters.

7.1

Macbeth

Dec 20, 1971

Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.

7.0

Good Daughter

Sep 19, 2024

A small-time con artist rips off elderly dementia patients by pretending to be their daughter—before the con catches up with her.

10.0

Elena

Oct 10, 2016

An old woman suffering from dementia thinks she is twenty years old and is about to run away with her lover. How does this illness affect her son?

8.1

Ran

Jun 1, 1985

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

7.1

The Leisure Seeker

Jan 3, 2018

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.

5.3

The Lears

Apr 22, 2017

A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.

5.7

Last Dance

Oct 4, 2019

Summer holidays, first love and a family secret. When 14-year-old Ali travels to the country with his little brother Selim to visit his grandparents, he is anything but enthusiastic. Ali does not yet know that he will meet the handsome Réjane and that his grandfather André is hiding something from the family. This will be the Summer where Ali will be tested.

5.0

Mi querido Juan Manuel

Jul 29, 2022

Juan, a seventy-year-old man with senile dementia, shares a room with Manuel, a young sparrow.

5.3

As They Made Us

Apr 8, 2022

Abigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance the dynamics within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love.

0.0

La mort petita

Apr 25, 2022

Adela is a single mother, hardworking and humble. While she works, her mother takes care of her son. Immersed in her obligations that don't allow her to think about her, she will be forced to open her eyes and face a new reality when, on an early morning, her mother runs away from home and begins to show the first signs of dementia.

8.0

How Do I Know

Apr 1, 2017

An old man with dementia tries to remember pieces of his life regarding his wife.

8.0

RSC Live: Richard III

Sep 28, 2022

Young Richard of Gloucester uses the chaos of the Wars of the Roses to begin his unscrupulous climb to power in this classic Shakespearean history of a king in the throes of jealousy and murder. Despite being manifestly unfit to govern, he overcomes each obstacle in his way to seize the crown, as King Richard III. But as those around him turn against him, and as his plans begin to unravel, where else can he turn as the Lancastrian opposition returns to drag the country into battle once more and put an end to Richard’s tyrannical rule. Richard III is a savagely comic analysis of the exercise of power, reminding us of the dangers of tyranny and our duty not to let it go unchecked.

Mother Lear

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