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Lace (1984)

Lace poster
Directed by
William Hale
Genre
drama television series
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 2 episodes
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A famous movie star wants to find the woman who gave birth to her and gave her up for adoption. She talks to three women who might be her mother to try to find out which one it really is.

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What happens

Lace is an American television miniseries, based on the 1982 novel of the same name by author Shirley Conran. The series aired on ABC on February 26–27, 1984. The plot concerns the search by film star Lili (Phoebe Cates) for her natural mother, who surrendered her for adoption as a newborn. Lace was one of the highest-rated television movies of the 1983–84 television season. Lili's line "Incidentally, which one of you bitches is my mother?", addressed to her three maternal candidates — Pagan Trelawney (Brooke Adams), Judy Hale (Bess Armstrong) and Maxine Pascal (Arielle Dombasle) — was named the best line in television history by TV Guide in its 1993 issue celebrating 40 years of television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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