1996
7.6 (663 votes)
2h 22m
Official Website
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
CiBy 2000
Channel Four Films
Thin Man Films
Channel Four Films
Thin Man Films
Secrets & Lies
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.
Key Crew
Producer: Simon Channing Williams
Director of Photography: Dick Pope
Writer: Mike Leigh
Director: Mike Leigh
Top 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
Videos
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