Mum's Guest

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Mum's Guest (Mehman-e Maman)
Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Written byDariush Mehrjui
Vahideh Mohmmadifar
Houshang Moradi Kermani
Produced byDariush Mehrjui
Starring Golab Adineh
Parsa Pirouzfar
Amin Hayai
Hasan Pourshirazi
Farideh Sepah-Mansour
Alireza Jafari
Cinematography Touraj Mansouri
Edited by Mahdi Hosseinivand
Music by Emad Bonakdar
Amin Mirshekari
Distributed by Sima Film
Release date
  • 22 July 2004 (2004-07-22)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryIran
LanguagePersian

Mum's Guest (Persian : مهمان مامان, translit.  Mehman-e Maman, Romanized as Mehmān-e Māmān) is a 2004 Iranian family comedy film directed by Dariush Mehrjui. It is based on a book of the same name by Iranian author Houshang Moradi Kermani. It was commissioned by Sima Film, the film studio of Iranian national broadcaster IRIB. It did very well at the Iranian box office and won a number of prizes at the 22nd Fajr Film Festival. [1]

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Plot

Mrs. Effat (Golab Adineh), a mother of two, receives word that her nephew and his wife are going to be visiting. Despite not being wealthy, Mrs. Effat tries to prepare a respectable dinner party with the help of her cinema-loving husband, Mr. Effat (Hasan Pourshirazi), and her two children, Amir and Bahareh. Meanwhile the Effats' drug addict neighbour, Yusuf (Parsa Pirouzfar), is desperate for some drugs after his wife has flushed his stash down the toilet. The eccentric old lady (Farideh Sepah-Mansour) who takes care of her chicken is also not making things much easier...

Awards and nominations

22nd Fajr International Film Festival:

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References

  1. "Mum's Guest on Soureh Cinema". Soureh Cinema. Retrieved 2005-02-11.