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Secrets & Lies

(1996)

May 24, 1996• 2h 22m
76%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Mike Leigh

Director

Top Billed Cast

BB

Brenda Blethyn

Cynthia Rose Purley

MJ

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Hortense Cumberbatch

TS

Timothy Spall

Maurice Purley

PL

Phyllis Logan

Monica Purley

CR

Claire Rushbrook

Roxanne Purley

LR

Lee Ross

Paul

LM

Lesley Manville

The Social Worker

EB

Elizabeth Berrington

Jane

MA

Michele Austin

Dionne

RC

Ron Cook

Stuart

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