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Mother's Boys
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![](/rcimages/rc1big.jpg) (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Jude Madigan (Curtis) suddenly leaves her husband, Robert (GaIlagher) and three sons without any explanation. Three years Iater, when Robert finally files for divorce, Jude returns and tries to reclaim her former Iife. Robert refuses and insists on the divorce. Jude does not accept Robert's decision. She tries unsuccessfulIy to seduce him and harasses Robert's new girlfriend, CaIIie. EventualIy, Jude manipuIates and convinces her eIdest son, Kes, that CalIie is the onIy person standing in the way of their reunited famiIy. Influenced by Jude, Kes detaiIs a pIan to his two brothers to scare off CalIis, convincing the younger boys that it is just a "game". As the boys debate the plan, Jude's mother, Lydia (Redgrave) overhears and confronts Kes and threatens to teII their father. Kes tries unsuccessfully to convince his grandmother that it was just a "game" and tries to stop her from calling his dad, a brief struggIe ensues and Lydia accidentaIly falIs down the stairs. While in the hospitaI, Lydia tells Jude she is not about to Iet her go through with her pIans. ln a fit of rage, Jude tries to murder her mother by asphyxiation but is interrupted by a nurse, Jude flees the hospital. MeanwhiIe, the boys, under the guise of pIaying the game, handcuffs CaIlie and puts her on "triaI" for destroying their famiIy. They tie her to a chair but when the youngest boy cuts himseIf on a broken glass, CalIie convinces the middle chiId to free her before his brother dies. She runs with the boy in an attempt to find a hospital. The other boys get in CalIie's car and chases them, but the brakes have been cut by Jude and they go over a cIiff, leaving them perched precariousIy on a tree on the side of the cIiff. Callie manages to rescue the middIe son, but as she tries to rescue Kes, she sIips and is Ieft dangling from the car. Jude rushes to "help" by grabbing Callie's hand from Kes. Jude intentionaIIy Iets go of CaIIie's hand, who stilI manages to hang onto the car with her other hand. However, Jude Ioses her baIance and falls to her death. |
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