Secrets & Lies (1996)
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.
- Date of release
- 1996-05-24
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (755)
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Mike Leigh
Casting
- 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
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