Released:
1996-05-24

Overview:
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.

Director:
Mike Leigh

Runtime:
2h 22min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Brenda Blethyn
  as
  Cynthia Rose Purley
• 
  Marianne Jean-Baptiste
  as
  Hortense Cumberbatch
• 
  Timothy Spall
  as
  Maurice Purley
• 
  Phyllis Logan
  as
  Monica Purley
• 
  Claire Rushbrook
  as
  Roxanne Purley