Directed by Mike Leigh
Starring Brenda Blethyn · Marianne Jean-Baptiste · Timothy Spall · Phyllis Logan
Original language: English
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Roxanne drives her mother crazy. Maurice never speaks to his niece. Cynthia has a shock for her family. Monica can't talk to her husband. Hortense has never met her mother.
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
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- Brenda BlethynCynthia Rose Purley
- Marianne Jean-BaptisteHortense Cumberbatch
- Timothy SpallMaurice Purley
- Phyllis LoganMonica Purley
- Claire RushbrookRoxanne Purley
- Lee RossPaul
- Lesley ManvilleThe Social Worker
- Elizabeth BerringtonJane
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- Directed by
- Mike Leigh
- Written by
- Mike Leigh
- Released
- 1996-05-24
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, United Kingdom
