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Secrets & Lies
1996Age guide: 12+
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.
★ 7.6/10 · 755 TMDB audience ratings
Starring
Brenda BlethynCynthia Rose Purley
Marianne Jean-BaptisteHortense Cumberbatch
Timothy SpallMaurice Purley
Phyllis LoganMonica Purley
Claire RushbrookRoxanne Purley
Lee RossPaul
Lesley ManvilleThe Social Worker
Elizabeth BerringtonJane
Audience reviews from TMDB · may contain spoilers
CRCulver: SECRETS AND LIES is a 1996 film by Mike Leigh that, appropriately enough, is concerned with the things that members of a family… Read full review
Peter McGinn: If I ever get around to drawing up a list of my top 25 favorite non-blockbuster movies, Secrets and Lies would roll in… Read full review