Skin (2008/I)

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Cast: Zoea Alberts, Nomathamsanga Baleka, Graeme Bloch, Ruaan Bok, Ben Botha, Hannes Brummer, Charlotte Butler, Tongai Arnold Chirisa, Onida Cowan, Jeremy Crutchley

Director: Anthony Fabian

Writer: Helen Crawley, Anthony Fabian

Genre: Drama

Rating: PG-13

Running Time: 107 min.

Advisory: for thematic material some violence and sexuality

Synopsis: "Skin" is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their white little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandras thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world - and triumphs against all odds.

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Skin (2008/I)

breast_is_best1: Bfc came round today and watched Josh on my skin, said he's still displaying some of the feeding reflexes! Still possible he may latch!!!
Squeakycleanxxx: @Mr_Invisible05 lol surprised its not busy being an orange Wednesday. I saw the grey last wk made me jump out my skin
Lameese_Yousif: @laylagillespie @zaynmalik oh well sexy zayn lol harrys ming saw pictures of him his skin is terrible://
amandagreen__: Saw a kid who had no eyes, not kidding literally there was skin where his eyes were supposed to be. Creeps
KennyKixx: I think I just saw Cee-Lo Green driving a silver Honda Civc while wearing a leopard skin fur coat and smoking a Newport.