TV Guide: Skin

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Trailer Addict — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A second trailer for Skin. Ten year-old Sandra is distinctly African looking. Her parents, Abraham and Sannie, are white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. They are shopkeepers in a remote area of the Eastern Transvaal and, despite Sandra s mixed-race appearance, have lovingly brought her up as their white little girl. Sandra is sent to a boarding school in the neighbouring town of Piet Retief, where her (white) brother Leon is also studying, but parents and teachers complain that she doesn t belong. She is examined by State officials, reclassified as Coloured , and expelled from the school. Sandra s parents are shocked, but Abraham fights through the courts to have the classification reversed. The story becomes an international scandal and media pressure forces the law to change, so that Sandra becomes officially White again. By the time she is 17, Sandra realises she is never going to be accepted by the white community. She falls in love with Petrus a black man, the

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Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The trailer for Skin which is based on a true story. Sandra Laing entered the world a beautiful baby but no one, not the hospital staff, her mother, father or neighbors would admit the obvious. Abraham and Sannie Laing were white yet their daughter was dark. By a biological quirk, the pigment of an unknown black ancestor had lain dormant for generations and manifested in Sandra. If there was ever a wrong place and wrong time for this phenomenon, it was apartheid South Africa in 1955! Skin is a compelling and moving story about love, betrayal and reconciliation.

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Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

This black & white dark comedy studies the breakdown of relationships through the eyes of two damaged roommates who act out the abusive husband/abused wife roles to the extreme. When Luther tries to force his friend Skin out of the house for a night so he can entertain a woman, their facade comes crashing down.