Dame Judie Dench's latest movie has had audiences sobbing and clapping at the Venice Film Festival.

Directed by Stephen Frears, "Philomena" is based on the true story of an Irish woman who became pregnant as a teenager and was forced into a convent.

She had to give her son up for adoption and the film follows her search for him 50 years later.

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