My Lover, My Son (also known as Hush-a-bye Murder) is a 1970 American-British co-production drama film directed by John Newland and starring Romy Schneider, Donald Houston and Dennis Waterman.
To Francesca's discomfort, James escapes his mother's clinging and decides to stay with Julie.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Television director John Newland brings a surface professionalism to his first feature and makes good use of cameraman David Muir's feeling for richly textured interiors.
But though Romy Schneider makes up for what she lacks in credibility as a possessive mother with what in the circumstances is an admirably controlled performance, and Dennis Waterman just manages to keep his part together, they can't really do much with a script which is just another variation on a hackneyed theme, this time with a twist in the tail and a televisual gesture towards courtroom suspense thrown in for good measure.
The dialogue is inane throughout, ... there is a theme song which recurs with the unfailing regularity of a commercial break, and the camera intermittently indulges flights of fancy to represent interior torment.