Made in America

Made in America

At the sperm-bank she asked for a tall, intelligent, black man. One out of three ain't bad.

PG-13 1993 · 111 min · ★ 5.5 · Comedy

A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that wasn't bad enough, he's white.

Directed by Richard Benjamin · Written by Holly Goldberg Sloan

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