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Secrets & Lies (1996)
Directed by Mike Leigh
“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.”
Drama · 2h 22m
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.
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
Crew
- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Writer
- Mike Leigh
- Director of Photography
- Dick Pope
- Original Music Composer
- Andrew Dickson
- Editor
- Jon Gregory
- Producer
- Simon Channing Williams
Details
- Release date
- 1996-05-24
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Greek, English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, France
- Production
- CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films, Channel Four Films
- Budget
- $4,500,000
- Box office
- $13,417,292