---
title: 'Cotton Mary (1999)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Madhur Jaffrey'
released: '1999-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 124
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/cotton-mary-1999'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159373/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Cotton Mary (1999)

1999 · 124 min · Drama · United Kingdom, France


## Synopsis

Cotton Mary is a 1999 film co-directed by Ismail Merchant, best known as the producer half of Merchant Ivory, and the Indian actress and writer Madhur Jaffrey, who also co-starred. Most of story is about of the changes in the characters of Cotton Mary, a former hospital nurse, and her new employer, Lilly MacIntosh, as Mrs. MacIntosh deals with her inability to breastfeed her baby and employs Mary as a nanny. There is a subtext of Lilly's husband having an affair with Mary's niece who was a former co-worker at the hospital where Mary had worked. The film was shot in coastal South India.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Madhur Jaffrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/madhur-jaffrey), [Ismail Merchant](https://cinepixo.com/people/ismail-merchant)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Richard Robbins](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-robbins)
- **Director of Photography:** [Pierre Lhomme](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-lhomme)

## Cast

- [Greta Scacchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/greta-scacchi)
- [Gemma Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/gemma-jones)
- [James Wilby](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-wilby)
- [Madhur Jaffrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/madhur-jaffrey)
- [Sakina Jaffrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/sakina-jaffrey)

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