Drama
Secrets & Lies
Avg rating 8.6 / My rating TBC
1996 · Directed by Mike Leigh · With Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall
Film info
- Runtime
- 2h 22m · 142 min
- IMDb
- 8.0 / 10 (50,519 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 95% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 92 / 100
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (audience, 755 votes)
- Trailer
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Full cast and crew
- Mike LeighDirector
- Brenda BlethynActoras Cynthia Rose Purley
- Marianne Jean-BaptisteActoras Hortense Cumberbatch
- Timothy SpallActoras Maurice Purley
- Phyllis LoganActoras Monica Purley
- Claire RushbrookActoras Roxanne Purley
- Lee RossActoras Paul
- Lesley ManvilleActoras The Social Worker
- Elizabeth BerringtonActoras Jane
- Andrew DicksonComposerAD
About this film
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.
Synopsis from TMDB.
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