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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.

1996 · R · 2h 22m

Directed by Mike Leigh

7.6

TMDB audience score
757 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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

  • Emma Amos
    Girl with Scar

  • Clare Perkins
    Hortense's Sister in Law

  • Elias Perkins McCook
    Hortense's Nephew

  • Jane Mitchell
    Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)

  • Janice Acquah
    Junior Optician

  • Keylee Jade Flanders
    Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)