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Skin
Directed by
Anthony Fabian
PG-13
2008
1h 46m
Drama
,
Biography
6.9
86%
79%
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Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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Cast of Skin
Sophie Okonedo
Sandra Laing
Alice Krige
Sannie Lang
Sam Neill
Abraham Laing
Terri Ann Eckstein
Elsie Laing (aged 19)
Bongani Masondo
Henry Laing (aged 20)
Dan Robbertse
Factory Foreman
Jeremy Crutchley
TV Reporter
Tony Kgoroge
Petrus Zwane
Ella Ramangwane
Young Sandra
Skin Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This great film by Anthony Fabian tells this story through the eyes of a happy girl who grows into an outsider.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Potent, still relevant and inspiring while maddening, Skin shows some of our best and much of our worst.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Director Anthony Fabian lets the story sell itself, and it does so partly on the strength of the lead performance by Sophie Okonedo.
Dallas Morning News
Cary Darling
By the end, the incredulity stems not from the fact that this happened but that the wider world didn't know about it before now.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Sophie Okonedo, so good in Hotel Rwanda, is fine here as well.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
What takes that story of heartbreak and makes it ultimately heartwarming is that Sandra's story, much like the history of apartheid itself, doesn't end there.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Laing's life, despite its inherent melodrama, does not automatically lend itself to the screen. And without the aid of a smart script or a prevailing sense of delicacy, a movie about her or apartheid risks being a blunt instrument.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
We don't need overwrought performances to understand the calamity of her life or to weep when her parents turn their backs on her. If anything, the story demands restraint because, invariably at the movies, it's the gentle touch that hits harder.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
As told by director Anthony Fabian, Skin is both exasperatingly choppy and exceptionally moving.
Entertainment Weekly
Clark Collis
Skin is a tragic, enraging, and uplifting tale.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The direction is never more than conventional, with a tear-inducing finale better suited to a TV soap opera.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
This unadorned but affecting drama about Sandra Laing, who attracted media attention in the 1950s when her white parents fought the South African system, suffers from a one-note script, but still does right by its tricky subject.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
Skin is a moving and smartly made account of a truly peculiar episode from the period of apartheid that existed as national policy in South Africa until just 15 years ago.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
In a day when it's difficult to say something new about the racial divide, Sandy's story has a poignant power as it underscores just how deeply the fissures run even when it's all in the family.
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
Sophie Okonedo beautifully portrays Laing as a confused and scared young woman who's forced to choose a color line, but not without her share of heartache and pain.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Provocative.
Observer
Rex Reed
Every emotion is underscored with sugary music, every narrative plot progression telegraphed with the mechanical structural stiffness of a made-for-TV movie.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
Great performances and a smart decision to avoid melodrama make Skin worth seeing but it's the small things that hold it back from being truly great.
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Sophie Okonedo again shines in this unusual but fact-based apartheid drama.
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Workmanlike, but enormously moving.
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