Mike Leigh's comedy drama in which an adopted optometrist sets out to find her birth mother. Also features Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan and more.
Mike Leigh's quietly devastating, cathartic exploration of the fault lines beneath one family's ordinary life.
Writer-director Leigh reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy in his ongoing contemplation of unembellished humanity with this resonant exploration of the deceptions, small and large, that shape our relationships to those we love.
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This hilarious, bittersweet comedy from director Mike Leigh is an unmissable and moving slice of real life.
Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a young, black optometrist whose adoptive parents have recently died. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced...