Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies
Drama

Secrets & Lies

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.

7.6(734 votes)·1996 142m·EN· United Kingdom

Directed by Mike Leigh

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.

TMDB

7.6/10

Where to watch

Director

Mike Leigh

Studios

CiBy 2000, Channel Four Films, Thin Man Films

Budget

$4.5M

Revenue

$13.4M

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

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