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Con Mum (2025)

Con Mum poster
Directed by
Nick Green
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
R
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 52 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British pastry chef is tricked out of nearly three hundred thousand pounds by a woman who says she is his mother. The documentary follows how the con artist gained his trust and the fallout from the deception.

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What happens

Con Mum is a 2025 British documentary film directed by Nick Green. The 90-minute feature chronicles the true story of Graham Hornigold, a celebrated British pastry chef, who was defrauded of nearly £300,000 by a woman, Dionne Marie Hanna, who claimed to be his mother. It was released on Netflix on March 25, 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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