After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a working class white woman, Cynthia.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook, Lee Ross
Crew: Simon Channing Williams (Producer), Dick Pope (Director of Photography), Jon Gregory (Editor), Mike Leigh (Director), Andrew Dickson (Original Music Composer), Mike Leigh (Writer)
Country: France, United Kingdom
Language: English
Studio: Thin Man Films, CiBy 2000, Film4 Productions
Runtime: 142 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: May 24, 1996
IMDb: 3.449
