Catherine Deneuve plays Juliette Binoche’s great actress mother in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth [2019]. “Cinema legend Fabienne is about to publish her memoirs. The version of her life in the book, however, is critiqued by her daughter Lumir, who visits Fabienne with her American husband and their daughter. Resentments eventually explode as Fabienne and Lumir confront the reality of their dynamic.” MUBI. Related reading; my review of Deneuve’s performance in The Truth – Artistic Longevity.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner [1967]. ” A couple’s attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé”  –  MUBI. Thanks again @tankgrrrrrl.

“Ruth Gordon is George Segal’s mother in the late, great Carl Reiner’s Where’s Poppa?” – @Dean_Frey … “Segal is a man with a problem – his mother. He promised his late father he’d take care of her, but when he finally meets the girl of his dreams, his batty, eccentric mother is intent on turning his dreams into one huge nightmare. Soon he becomes obsessed with getting rid of her… before she gets rid of his girlfriend!” – Kino Lorber.

Christos Stergioglou’s totalitarian father in Dogtooth [Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009] – a man who raises his family completely cut off from the outside world. @HansHerklot and @instaf0x suggested this.

Anjelica Huston plays Lilly Dillon, John Cusack’s veteran con artist mother in The Grifters [Stephen Frears, 1990]. Nominated by @PaulvonMitchell.

Estranged parents Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski in Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas [1984]. Thank-you @RomanPBone1.

Bud Cort as Harold, with his snooty mother played by Vivian Pickles, in Harold And Maude [Hal Ashby, 1971]. Tagline; ” They met at the funeral of a perfect stranger. From then on, things got perfectly stranger and stranger.” Thank-you @Matt_Carter1972.

Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly in We Need To Talk About Kevin [Lynne Ramsay, 2011]. The tagline was ‘Mummy’s little monster…’  And @tbflatley nominated this one.  Related;  ‘The Cinephile Actor – Tilda Swinton‘.