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Jul 24, 2009 · Skin: Directed by Anthony Fabian. With Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Tony Kgoroge. Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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- Biography, Drama
- Anthony Fabian
- 2009-07-24
Skin is a 2008 biographical drama film directed by Anthony Fabian. It is based on the book When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone, and the life of Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents, who was classified as "Coloured" during the apartheid era, presumably due to a genetic case of atavism.
Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, and Alice Krige do wonderful work in Skin, delivering performances whose strength is underlined by the incredible real-life events upon which the movie is based. Read...
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- Anthony Fabian
- PG-13
- Sophie Okonedo
Nov 11, 2009 · From being a cheerful child, Sandra now grows into a troubled adolescent (Sophie Okonedo) who tries to bleach her skin. Her parents set up two disastrous dates with white boys. She falls in love with Petrus (Tony Kgoroge), a young market gardener who is black, and her father chases him away with a rifle. Pregnant, she runs away from home, but ...
Oct 29, 2009 · Directed by Anthony Fabian. Biography, Drama. PG-13. 1h 47m. By Manohla Dargis. Oct. 29, 2009. “Skin” is a fictionalized retelling of the true and terrible story of Sandra Laing, a South...
- Anthony Fabian
Based on a true story, SKIN follows Sandra Laing, a distinctly mixed-race South African woman born to white parents during the apartheid era. 171 IMDb 6.9 1 h 46 min 2008. X-Ray PG-13.
Based on an incredible true story, SKIN follows Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo), a distinctly mixed-race South African woman born to white parents (Sam Neill and Alice Krige) during the apartheid era.