Drama
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.
Directed by
Mike Leigh
Written by
Mike Leigh
Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
Angela Curran
Little Boy's Mother
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
Phil Davis
Man in Suit
Ruth Sheen
Laughing Woman
Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother
Alison Steadman
Woman with Dog
Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
Claire Rushbrook
Roxanne Purley
Ron Cook
Stuart
Lee Ross
Paul
Liz Smith
Woman with Cat
Peter Wight
Father in Family Group
Terence Harvey
First Bride's Father
Michele Austin
Dionne
David Neilson
Man in Suit
Jonny Coyne
Fiance
Nitin Ganatra
Potential Suitor
Wendy Nottingham
Glum Woman
Mia Soteriou
Fiancee
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
Anthony O'Donnell
Uneasy Man
Gary McDonald
Boxer
Emma Amos
Girl with Scar
Stephen Churchett
Man in Suit
Clare Perkins
Hortense's Sister in Law
Paul Trussell
Grinning Husband
Richard Syms
Vicar
Grant Masters
Best Man
Lucy Sheen
Nurse
Frances Ruffelle
Young Mother
Janice Acquah
Junior Optician
Linda Beckett
Pin Up Housewife
Elias Perkins McCook
Hortense's Nephew
Jane Mitchell
Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)
Keylee Jade Flanders
Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)
Kate O'Malley
Second Bride
Joe Tucker
Groom
Annie Hayes
Mother in Family Group
Jean Ainslie
Grandmother
Metin Marlow
Conjuror
Su Elliot
Raunchy Woman
Amanda Crossley
Raunchy Woman
Di Sherlock
Raunchy Woman
Peter Waddington
Man in Suit
Peter Stockbridge
Man in Suit
Rachel Lewis
Graduate
Denise Orita
Uneasy Woman
Margery Withers
Elderly Lady
Gordon Winter
Laughing Man
Theresa Watson
Daughter
Sheila Kelley
Fertile Mother

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