Secrets & Lies (1996)

Name: Secrets & Lies
Genre: Drama
Released: 1996-05-24
Duration: 142 min
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook

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.

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.

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Released 1996-05-24 · 142 min · Drama

Directed by Mike Leigh

Cast

Brenda Blethyn as Cynthia Rose Purley
Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Hortense Cumberbatch
Timothy Spall as Maurice Purley
Phyllis Logan as Monica Purley
Claire Rushbrook as Roxanne Purley
Lee Ross as Paul
Lesley Manville as The Social Worker
Elizabeth Berrington as Jane
Michele Austin as Dionne
Ron Cook as Stuart
Trevor Laird as Hortense's Brother
Brian Bovell as Hortense's Brother
Emma Amos as Girl with Scar
Clare Perkins as Hortense's Sister in Law
Elias Perkins McCook as Hortense's Nephew