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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Mike Leigh |
| Stars: |
Brenda Blethyn |
| Actors: |
Marianne Jean-Baptiste |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Self-Discovery · Character Study · Family Interaction · British · Tear Jerker · Essential Cinema |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Widescreen |
| UPC: |
024543130338 |
| Release Date: |
1996 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 16min |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Widescreen, 2hr 16min
Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (February 01, 2005)
UPC: 024543130338 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: Pan & Scan, 2hr 16min
Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (April 15, 1997)
UPC: 086162438936 |
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Professional Reviews
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(03/01/2005, p.108, Premiere Staff): "Leigh's aesthetically pared-down, thickly improvisational stylings allow his cast to revel in the rich complexities of their familial confrontations..." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Mike Leigh's superlative drama, at once hysterically funny and profoundly sad, examines a wounded contemporary British family. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a young black optometrist, has just buried her beloved adoptive mother. In her sorrow, she embarks on a search for her birth mother, who turns out to be Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), a white factory worker living a lonely life with her surly daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). No one in the family, except Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) and his wife Monica (Phyllis Logan), knows that the teenage Cynthia gave up a child for adoption without ever seeing the baby. Hortense contacts Cynthia, and after a heart-wrenching reconciliation, they become best friends. Maurice and Monica, childless but financially secure, are very fond of Roxanne and host a family barbeque to celebrate her twenty-first birthday. Cynthia convinces Hortense to attend the party and meet the family--as a mate from the factory--but during the cake and champagne celebration... |
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