My Mother Frank

SYNOPSIS

This is the story of 51 year-old Frances Regina Aileen 
Nano Kennedy, a.k.a. Frank, who is forced to grow up 
by her 18 year-old son.

Frank has created a safe, secure, if somewhat bizarre, 
world for herself- and it's boring her to death. She's 
an eccentric, bad tempered, dry witted, devoutly Roman 
Catholic, martyrish, over-protective mother, with a 
seriously bad memory, living her life through her 
grown-up children and driving them absolutely crazy in 
the process. She even wakes David in the middle of his 
wet dreams.

Everyone thinks Frank should get a life - from her 
friend Jean wanting her to open a dress shop, to her 
mentors/tormentors, two 80 year-old nuns, the Sisters 
Sebastian and Bernadette. Even David gets in on the 
act and tries to get her to enroll in a course 
somewhere.

After initial resistance, Frank enrolls in a degree at 
the same university that David attends. Soon the two 
worlds of mother and son collide and Frank finds 
herself doing battle with just about everyone.

Frank-the-Worrier becomes Frank-the-Warrior, a kind of 
geriatric Rocky, engaged in warfare with the fearsome 
Professor Mortlock, who sets before her a road fraught 
with trials and obstacles.

Frank suffers many defeats and humiliations but each 
time she's about to give up, a peculiar brand of 
anarchic courage pushes her onward. When Frank is 
temporarily ejected from the university for 
(inadvertently) cheating, it seems things can't get 
any worse. And then they do.

But she does not surrender. She chooses to make the 
best of her time. In a stirring speech, she succeeds 
in turning her old antagonist, the intractable 
Professor Mortlock, who relents and allows Frank (and 
her mishap-prone friend, Peggy) to sit the university 
exams. If they pass, they're back in.

Frank passes with flying colors and along the way 
becomes an inspiration to those around her who want to 
change their lives but are afraid to take the chance.

David finally wins the heart of the girl of his wet 
dreams. Cross-eyed Sister Bernadette finally gets her 
eyes fixed. Jean opens her dreamt-of dress shop. 
Mortlock discovers his humanity. By the film's end, 
Frank, like all great heroes, has ignited a gentle 
revolution in everyone around her.