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Secrets & Lies
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.
1996 · Directed by Mike Leigh · 142 min · Drama · 15 frames
Tagline
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.
Crew
- Written by: Mike Leigh
- Cinematography: Dick Pope
- Edited by: Jon Gregory
- Music: Andrew Dickson
- Production design: Alison Chitty
- Produced by: Simon Channing Williams
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
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, France
- Language: Greek, English
- Studios: CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films, Channel Four Films
- Budget: $4,500,000
- Box office: $13,417,292
- Themes: london, england, parent child relationship, adoption, socially deprived family, reunion, candid, loving
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