2025 · drama · comedy
Once Upon My Mother
Directed by Ken Scott1h 42m2025
In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family. Roland is born with a club foot that prevents him from standing. Against everyone's advice, she promises her son that he will walk like the others and that he will have a fabulous life. From then on, Esther will do everything in her power to keep this promise. Through decades of trials and miracles of life, this film is the story of a true, funny and moving story, that of an incredible destiny and the greatest love there is: that of a mother for her child.
Our read: Once Upon My Mother (2025) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
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- tender
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