Arlene Cockburn

The Winter Guest -- A recently widowed Frances, still grieving over her husband's death, deals with a visit from her overbearing mother seeking to console her. Meanwhile, her teenage son begins a tentative romance with a local girl.

In the directorial debut of Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Alan Rickman ("Love Actually," "Die Hard") the recently widowed Frances (played by Academy Award-winner Emma Thompson - "Sense and Sensibility," "Love Actually")still grieving over her husband's death, deals with a visit from her overbearing mother(played by her real life mother, Phyllida Law - "The Time Machine," "Much Ado About Nothing") seeking to console her. Meanwhile, her teenage son begins a tentative romance with a local girl, two old buddies attend the husband's funeral, and a couple of truant teenagers stir things up.

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh adapts three surreal, darkly comic vignettes from his collection of short stories set in the Scottish slums, including the title tale about an acidhead who switches bodies with a pampered infant. In "The Granton Star Cause," a slacker faces a string of rejections, thanks to the whims of a cruel, foulmouthed God. In "A Soft Touch," a hapless husband struggles with a sadistic neighbor.

A recently widowed Frances, still grieving over her husband's death, deals with a visit from her overbearing mother seeking to console her. Meanwhile, her teenage son begins a tentative romance with a local girl.

A recently widowed Frances, still grieving over her husband's death, deals with a visit from her overbearing mother seeking to console her. Meanwhile, her teenage son begins a tentative romance with a local girl.

In the directorial debut of Alan Rickman, the recently widowed Frances (Emma Thompson) still grieving over her husband's death, deals with a visit from her overbearing mother. Meanwhile, her teenage son begins a tentative romance with a local girl, two old buddies attend the husband's funeral, and a couple of truant teenagers stir things up.