Independent Lens

26 Season
509 Episode

Independent Lens - Season 11 Episode 23 Sunshine


(10 votes, average: 6.80/ 10)

60 minutes 2024 HD

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In 1975 rural Texas, a local mayor's daughter grapples with an unplanned pregnancy -- finally deciding to have her baby in secret before giving her away in a hidden adoption. Twenty-three years later, the adopted child also has an unplanned baby out of wedlock. "Sunshine" tells the intimate story of this second-generation single mother and her own struggle with the idea of family.

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