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Certificate 15

Cast Samuel L Jackson Naomi Watts Kerry Washington Annette Bening Tatyana Ali

Directors Rodrigo Garcia

Screenwriters Rodrigo Garcia

Running Time 125 minutes

Mother And Child
Mum's the word

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Plot
Housebound and left to look after her ageing mother, Karen (Bening) daydreams ruefully of the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years previously. Her daughter (Watts) is now a tough-edged lawyer nursing some long-buried wounds of her own. Lucy (Washington), meanwhile, yearns for a child of her own.

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