Secrets & Lies

Name: Secrets & Lies
Released: 1996

1996R2h 22m

Drama

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Roxanne drives her mother crazy. Maurice never speaks to his niece. Cynthia has a shock for her family. Monica can't talk to her husband. Hortense has never met her mother.

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

Director: Mike Leigh
Writer: Mike Leigh
Music: Andrew Dickson
Cinematography: Dick Pope
Rated: R · Under 17 requires an accompanying parent or adult guardian.

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Cast

Brenda BlethynCynthia Rose Purley
Marianne Jean-BaptisteHortense Cumberbatch
Timothy SpallMaurice Purley
Phyllis LoganMonica Purley
Claire RushbrookRoxanne Purley
Lee RossPaul
Lesley ManvilleThe Social Worker
Elizabeth BerringtonJane
Michele AustinDionne
Ron CookStuart

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