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About
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.
Theatrical
Feb 20, 1997
Digital
Jan 21, 2022
DVD / Blu-ray
Apr 15, 1997
Box Office
$13.4M
Budget
$4.5M
Return
3.0x
Director
Producer
Music
Studio
CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films, Channel Four Films
Cast
Full credits →B
Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
M
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
T
Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
P
Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
C
Claire Rushbrook
Roxanne Purley
L
Lee Ross
Paul
L
Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
E
Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
M
Michele Austin
Dionne
R
Ron Cook
Stuart
T
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
B
Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother
E
Emma Amos
Girl with Scar
C
Clare Perkins
Hortense's Sister in Law
J
Jane Mitchell
Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)
J
Janice Acquah
Junior Optician
K
Keylee Jade Flanders
Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)
H
Hannah Davis
First Bride
T
Terence Harvey
First Bride's Father
K
Kate O'Malley
Second Bride
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