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starstarstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstarstar Kevin Thomas - LA Times
starstarstar Peter Stack - SF Chronicle
starstarstar Leslie Camhi - Village Voice
starstarstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
starstarstar Tom Keogh - Film.com
starstarstar Lou Lumenick - NY Post
starstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstar Bridget Byrne - Boxoffice Magazine
starstarstar Arthur Lazere - culturevulture.net
starstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstar Jonathan Lewis - The Reel Site
starstar Elvis Mitchell - NY Times
star Steve Simels - TV Guide

“[The story] has not only the sociopolitical resonance we've come to expect from Merchant Ivory productions, but also a sly dark comedic edge”

- Joe Baltake

“[A] creepily unpleasant study of race and class with a plot by way of All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard”

- Steve Simels

Cotton Mary
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Set in India in 1954, Greta Scacchi is an English woman who can’t nurse her newborn baby, and Madhur Jaffrey is an Anglo-Indian nurse who moves into her home to help her and then begins trying to control and also adapt to her lifestyle. James Wilby, Sakina Jaffrey, Prayag Raj, Laura Lumley, Neena Gupta. Director: Ismail Merchant (1999, R)
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