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Secrets & Lies

1996 · Mike Leigh · 142 min

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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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7.6/10Rating on TMDBFrom The Movie Database757 votesTMDB
Brenda BlethynCynthia Rose PurleyMarianne Jean-BaptisteHortense CumberbatchTimothy SpallMaurice PurleyPhyllis LoganMonica PurleyClaire RushbrookRoxanne PurleyLee RossPaulLesley ManvilleThe Social WorkerElizabeth BerringtonJaneMichele AustinDionneRon CookStuartTrevor LairdHortense's BrotherBrian BovellHortense's BrotherEmma AmosGirl with ScarClare PerkinsHortense's Sister in LawEElias Perkins McCookHortense's Nephew

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Brenda BlethynCynthia Rose PurleyMarianne Jean-BaptisteHortense CumberbatchTimothy SpallMaurice PurleyPhyllis LoganMonica PurleyClaire RushbrookRoxanne PurleyLee RossPaulLesley ManvilleThe Social WorkerElizabeth BerringtonJaneMichele AustinDionneRon CookStuartTrevor LairdHortense's BrotherBrian BovellHortense's BrotherEmma AmosGirl with ScarClare PerkinsHortense's Sister in LawEElias Perkins McCookHortense's Nephew

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