Conversations with Mother (Spanish: Conversaciones con mamá) is a 2004 Argentine comedy-drama film directed and written by Santiago Carlos Oves.

[1] The film stars Eduardo Blanco as a middle-aged man who has just lost his job and who has about to lose his home, his wife and his entire Argentinian-bourgeois world and China Zorrilla as his octogenarian mother.

The film premiered on 15 April 2004 in Argentina and appeared in over ten countries worldwide.

Jaime, a middle aged Argentine man who has lost his job, is pressured by his wife to sell the apartment he maintains for his mother, who is 82, in order to keep their lifestyle intact.

She eventually tells him that part of the reason that she doesn’t want to give up the apartment is that she has a boyfriend, who is 79, and whom she met when she discovered that he was eating the food she left out for the neighborhood cats.