Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 142 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, France
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- london
- england
- parent child relationship
- adoption
- socially deprived family
- reunion
- candid
- loving
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
- Claire Rushbrook — Roxanne Purley
- Lee Ross — Paul
- Lesley Manville — The Social Worker
- Elizabeth Berrington — Jane
- Michele Austin — Dionne
- Ron Cook — Stuart
- Trevor Laird — Hortense's Brother
- Brian Bovell — Hortense's Brother
- Emma Amos — Girl with Scar
- Clare Perkins — Hortense's Sister in Law
- Elias Perkins McCook — Hortense's Nephew
- Directed
- Mike Leigh
- Written
- Mike Leigh
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 739 ratings
- Studio
- CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films, Film4 Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
