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.

• DirectorMike Leigh
• Release24 May 1996
• GenreDrama
• Duration2h 22m
• Budget$4,500,000
• Revenue$13,417,292
• Rate
  

  7.564
  679 reviews
• Productions

  CiBy 2000, Channel Four Films, Thin Man Films