BFI Distribution and Break Out Pictures to release Four Mothers

BFI Distribution and Break Out Pictures have partnered in the acquisition of Irish comedy drama Four Mothers, winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival. Break Out Pictures will release the film in Ireland and BFI Distribution will handle it in the UK. The release date for cinemas in both territories is set for 4 April 2025.

Irish director and writer Darren Thornton (A Date for Mad Mary) and co-writer, brother Colin Thornton, adapted Gianni Di Gregorio’s 2008 LFF winner Mid-August Lunch into a funny and charming tale of one Irish son juggling four very different mothers, influenced by personal experiences with their own mother, Trish.

The film stars James McArdle (Mary Queen of Scots, Mare of Easttown, Andor), Fionnula Flanagan (The Guard, Waking Ned Devine), Dearbhla Molloy (Wild Mountain Thyme, Uncle Vanya), Paddy Glynn (her feature film debut) and Stella McCusker (Five Minutes of Heaven, You, Me and Marley). Niamh Cusack makes a cameo appearance as a medium and Rory O’Neill, aka Panti Bliss, one of Ireland’s best known drag performers, plays a therapist….