MURDER and murder(1996)
Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged women.
Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the pleasures and uncertainties of later-life emotional attachment and lesbian identity in a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance.
Movie: MURDER and murder
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Doris
Mildred
Young Mildred
Alice
Evan
Jim
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Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the pleasures and uncertainties of later-life emotional attachment and lesbian identity in a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance.
Release Date
1996-09-10
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4.938
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Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged women.
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