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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.
$4,500,000
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May 24, 1996
CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films
56 people
Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
Acting
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
Acting
Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
Acting
Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
Acting
Claire Rushbrook
Roxanne Purley
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Lee Ross
Paul
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Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
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Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
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Michele Austin
Dionne
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Ron Cook
Stuart
Acting
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
Acting
Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother
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