Secrets & Lies

Name: Secrets & Lies
Genre: Drama
Released: 1996
Duration: 142 min
Rating: 7.58

1996 · 142 min

Drama

★ 7.6

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Trailer

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.

Crew

Director Mike Leigh
Writer Mike Leigh
Director of Photography Dick Pope

Cast

Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
Claire Rushbrook
Roxanne Purley
Lee Ross
Paul
Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
Michele Austin
Dionne
Ron Cook
Stuart
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother

Crew

Director — Mike Leigh
Writer — Mike Leigh
Director of Photography — Dick Pope

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Intermission

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