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Switched at Birth (1991)

Switched at Birth poster
Directed by
Waris Hussein
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two families discover that their infant daughters were accidentally switched at birth. The story follows the difficult aftermath as both sets of parents and the children themselves deal with the shock and the painful choices that follow.

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What happens

Switched at Birth is a 1991 American miniseries directed by Waris Hussein. It is based on the true story of Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg, babies switched soon after birth in a Florida hospital in 1978. NBC aired the production as a two-part miniseries over two consecutive nights on April 28, 1991. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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