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10. About Face

A cheating priest discovers that he has two 16-year-old daughters from an affair: one beautiful, one horribly disfigured.

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In Victorian England, Reverend Johnathan ( Anthony Andrews ), a corrupt and adulterous priest, discovers that he is the long-lost father of twin daughters: the beautiful and gentle Angelica and the angry and deformed Leah ( Anna Friel in a double role). Deciding that having a family would be good for his image, Johnathan decides to adopt the girls as his own, but Leah, in a murderous rage, vows to kill their father for abandoning them. Also starring Imelda Staunton.

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