Cape of Good hope

South African director Mark Bamford's sweet-natured ensemble film doesn't shy away from addressing issues of racism ¡ both black and white — such as unequal opportunity, sexual exploitation of domestic workers or poverty in the townships, but integrates them into tightly woven stories about ordinary people doing the best to live their lives, raise their children and do a little good when the opportunity arises. Estranged from her father and enmeshed in an unsatisfying affair with a married man, Kate (Debbie Brown), the slightly chubby daughter of a self-absorbed, much-married airhead (Clare Marshall) who's dating a much younger plastic surgeon, has always related bet...