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May 11 2011 
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I first saw the lead actress, Olga Fedori (right), in an episode of Doctors in January this year as she played the young Russian floozy of a middle-aged man who she claimed had made her pregnant. Then I saw she was in this movie and I had to take a look as she's very attractive. In this film, she's Polish, working as an office cleaner at Heathrow's Terminal 4, and living in London, but not with her parents. The job's far from the greatest and while being reluctant to speak to too many people, she'll make the best of what she can with young, mouthy Birdie (Ainsley Howard) and her brother Elbie (Toby Alexander), who never says a word. As her evening pans out, she misses the last bus home and ends up back at their house on the promise of their father giving her a lift home. What comes next is a nightmare of epic proportions and plays out like an extended episode of Dexter - without the morals - meets the The Jim Rose Circus, while living in Josef Fritzl's cellar! I don't want to say much more about the incredible things that you discover in this film because it would just be spoilers, but let's just say that the twosome playing Mum and Dad (Perry Benson & Dido Miles, below-right) are perfect for each other! When they do look normal, the family seemed a bit like the '80s comedy series Bread, at one point, as they showed the kids bringing home the spoils, although for that series it was money earned from possibly-honest jobs whereas here it's all stolen, ill-gotten gains. Overall, Mum & Dad is perverted and sick filth that gets progressively more disgusting with each new scene.... and it's brilliant! To cap it all, this is Steven Sheil's first full movie as a director, and to that end he deserves a full round of applause as you would never have known it was his debut since it's just so damn good! A must-see!
And the audio may only be in Dolby Surround, but the echoing hum of the environment hell as planes fly overhead where Lena has to live gave a permanent chill down my spine for the duration of the movie. The extras are as follows:
Sadly, there are no subtitles for the DVD and, also the chapters are a bit lacking at only 12 for the 85-minute running time. Personally, I'd bank on at least one every five minutes plus one each for the opening and closing credits. The menu features various clips from the film with the music of Gemma Ray's cover version of the song 900 Miles.
Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2009.blog comments powered by Disqus
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B 37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier. PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
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Mum & Dad
are normally the two people you can rely on life the most, even if they do get on your nerves from time to time while growing up,
but the pair in this movie really do take the biscuit.
The film is presented in a 16:9 anamorphic widescreen ratio and doesn't suffer at all from the grim setting. In fact, it excels
in it and brings all the death it nicely to life... if you see what I mean. It was also helped by viewing it upscaled to a
37" plasma screen via an Xbox 360.
