Our Mother's House

Synopsis: When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears...
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Jack Clayton
Production: MGM
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Year:
1967
104 min
100 Views


Good evening, Mr Halbert.

I've done shopping, Hugh.

What are you doing?

-They're for mother...

When she's better.

She'll love it.

Have you paid Mrs Quayle?

-Yes, she's still here.

Come on... we'll be late.

Dunstan...Are you coming?

It's nearly "mother-time".

Hey, wait, Jimminy darling!

Did you call, Mrs 'ook?

She's been asleep, Mrs Quayle.

-Oh, I won't disturb 'er then.

Elsa! Tell your mum I'll be

in Saturday next week, alright?

I'll tell her, Mrs

Quayle. -Alright then.

Hope your mum'll soon be better.

Well, I'm off then. Cheery-bye!

Don't do anything

I wouldn't do.

You know who I am...I'm... -Dad?

No, I'm... -Mother?

No, I'm Mrs Quayle...

old "Snail Quayle"...

And I'm going to give you

a proper dusting.

Sh!..She'll hear you!

"Mother-time"

What's wrong, Diana? -Nothing.

Jimminy, you bring the little

ones in. They're in the garden.

"All things bright

...and beautiful..."

Elsa...

Is she still asleep?

So... is she...?

Is it mother?

Mother... please!

Don't, Hugh! She's...

It's all over.

But she can't be dead!

-She IS, Hugh...I know!

She...

She's gone.

Stop it Gerty...

Stop it at once!

You gotta tell them, Else.

Don't be telling ME what

to do! I'm the eldest.

Alright, Else.

Please, Hugh... The little ones

mustn't see you've been crying.

Alright, Hugh...I'm ready.

Sh!..Here's Hugh.

Elsa says...

you can come in now.

Read to us!

Mother...

Mother has passed on.

Mother has passed on.

You're cold, Mother!

It's alright,

Diana... It's alright.

But she's cold!

She's cold!

Mother's... d...

Dead.

What's dead?

Like...

Like...Jesus? -That's right.

She's gone to join Jesus.

Crucified... dead and buried...

And on the third day,

He rose again.

And He rose...

Mother won't rise again.

She needs some blankets...

she's cold...

She's not dead!

She's alright... she's not dead

...she's not!

Stop it, Diana, stop it!

Stop it Di... she IS dead!

I am the rose of Sharon...

...and the lily of the valleys.

As the lily among thorns...

so is my love among

the daughters.

As the apple tree

among the trees of the wood...

so is my beloved

among the sons.

I sat down under his shadow...

You forgot my food!

Jimminy!

You haven't fed him!

I forgot.

I do forget things, you know.

Mother knows.

Doesn't she...Else?

You never do anything

but draw all the time...

I suppose you think drawing's

more important...

Don't be foolish, Dun!

It's alright, Jimminy...

you can do it later.

Mother wouldn't have minded.

I mind! I mind!

It does matter!

We're gonna be finished!

Whither is thy beloved gone

O thou fairest among women?

Whither is thy beloved turned aside...

that we may seek him with thee?

My beloved is gone down

into his garden...

to the beds of spices,

to feed in the gardens,

and to gather lilies.

I am my beloved

and my beloved is mine...

He feedeth among the lilies.

Don't stop.

By night on my bed I sought him

whom my soul loveth...

I sought him, but I found him not.

I will rise now, and go about

the city in the streets

and in the broad ways I will seek him

whom my soul loveth...

I sought him, but I found him not.

The watchmen that go about the city

found me...

to whom I said...

Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

It was but a little that I passed from them,

but I found him whom my soul loveth

I held him, and would not let him go,

until I had brought him into my mother's house...

and into the chamber

of her that conceived me.

For what we are about to receive...

...may the Lord make us truly grateful.

Amen.

More sugar.

You've got it.

Well, it's not sweet enough.

She shows no respect.

Don't, Dun... she's only a baby.

Here you are.

We ought to tell someone, Elsa.

Tell who?

The doctor.

What doctor?

The one down Millet Rd...

Dr Meadows.

We could tell him...

Couldn't we?

Mother wouldn't want

any doctor messing about...

...touching her!

When I had measles, mother...

That's different, Gerty...

Mother isn't ill any more...

Mother's dead.

God will keep us well

if He wants us well...

...or He'll take us to His bosom

when our time is done.

Remember?

She always said that.

We're going to keep the budgie...

aren't we?

Of course we are.

Everything's going to be

exactly the same.

Everything.

That's Mother's comb!

Can't I keep it now, Else?

Certainly not!

Mother won't need to comb

any more.

Gerty!

Well, she won't...

will she, Else?

Mother and I

called it wiggy-wiggy!

Stop it!

Both of you... stop it!

Now, straight to bed!

Good night!

Wiggy!

Goodnight... wiggy wiggy wiggy...

Listen!..I remember...

Mother left a will.

Perhaps there's something in it...

Something Mother wanted us to know.

Well, where is it?

It's in Mother's desk.

What's a... will?

What's a... will?

"Last Will and Testament"

I, Violet Edna Hook...

being of sound mind,

hereby bequeath...

the need for my home, house,

all the furniture...

...and contents therein...

...and the money in my

Post Office Savings Account...

...to my dear children.

In death, as in life,

I shall be forever near them.

And so long as they remain together,

cherishing each other...

...and living in

Christian harmony...

...no harm shall come to them.

To my...

What else does it say?

Nothing.

Let me see!

There's nothing else,

I tell you!

We're going to get out it.

Please...I want a biscuit.

Biscuit! You can't have a biscuit

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Jeremy Brooks

Jeremy Brooks (17 December 1926 – 27 June 1994) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist. He is best known for his novels (particularly Jampot Smith, Henry's War and Smith, As Hero) and for his stage adaptations of classic works, particularly a series of Maxim Gorky plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His novels were praised for their lyricism and for their "Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos". Anthony Burgess, in The Novel Now said "Jeremy Brooks has come to considerable stature in Jampot Smith and Smith, as Hero: he has created one of the few really large picaresque characters in the post-war novel." more…

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