1996 2h 22m Mike Leigh

Secrets & Lies

Name: Secrets & Lies
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1996
Rating: 8.0
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan

★ 8.0 IMDb

Drama Comedy

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.

Writer Mike Leigh

Cast Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan

DP Dick Pope

Production Designer Eve Stewart

Music Andrew Dickson

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