Lace is a television miniseries, produced in 1984, based on the novel of the same name by author Shirley Conran. The plot concerns the search by sex symbol Lili (Phoebe Cates) for her natural mother, who surrendered her for adoption as a newborn.
The mini-series is infamous for the line "Which one of you bitches is my mother?" spoken by Lili, when she finally assembles the three potential candidates - Pagan Trelawney (Brooke Adams), Judy Hale (Be...
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Lace is a television miniseries, produced in 1984, based on the novel of the same name by author Shirley Conran. The plot concerns the search by sex symbol Lili (Phoebe Cates) for her natural mother, who surrendered her for adoption as a newborn.
The mini-series is infamous for the line "Which one of you bitches is my mother?" spoken by Lili, when she finally assembles the three potential candidates - Pagan Trelawney (Brooke Adams), Judy Hale (Bess Armstrong) and Maxine Pascal (Arielle Dombasle).
The story opens circa 1980 at an abandoned chateau in the Swiss Alps, once a prestigious boarding school, L'Hirondelle. The internationally famous film siren Lili (Phoebe Cates) travels from there to a private meeting with the elderly Hortense Boutin (Angela Lansbury), who Lili knows was paying money on behalf of one of the school's students to a family which adopted the student's illegitimate child. Lili is the child, now grown up.
The story then flashes back to 1960, introducing schoolgirls...
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