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Made in America (1993)
Director: Richard Benjamin
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Director Benjamin makes amiable but bland comedies, and here's another. The pitch is ebony (Goldberg) meets ivory (Danson) as bio-chemical parents of, well, a light-brown daughter (Long) when they belatedly discover she was the fruit of a sperm bank mix-up. Whoopi's a successful, politicised, single working-mother; Danson's a lovable, reconstructable cowpoke. After the first half sets up intriguing racial/political/biological conundrums, the second simply lets them go hang. Energetically directed with a fair smattering of funny lines.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Benjamin
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Michael Douglas, Rick Bieber
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Will Smith, Nia Long, Frances Bergen, Phyllis Avery, Jennifer Tilly full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 110 mins
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