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Secrets & Lies(1996)7.5
Secrets & Lies1996-05-24
•Drama
•142 minutes
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.
Top Billed 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
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Lesley Manville
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Reviews4
A review by CRCulver
8.0
Written by CRCulver on 1 / May / 2018
SECRETS AND LIES is a 1996 film by Mike Leigh that, appropriately enough, is concerned with the things that members of a family conceal from each other.
Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a black w...
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