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Mother love can be smothering, the sometimes uncomfortable topic of "Introducing the Dwights," an Australian dramedy about a woman whose show business aspirations cloud her maternal perspective.
Jean Dwight (Brenda Blethyn) hovers on the outskirts of professional entertainment, delivering her bawdy comedy routine--she's billed as stand-up's "raunchiest homemaker"--at humdrum locales whose acts include magicians and soft striptease. Her day job is in a restaurant kitchen, where she amuses other staff with foodstuff sculptures of genitalia.
And she tends, more or less, to her two sons, Tim (Khan Chittenden), who works as a mover, and Mark (Richard Wilson), a victim of brain damage from birth. She is a woman who wins points for her love and treatment of this disabled son, an aspect of the film that director Cherie Nowlan handles with charm and pert humor.
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