Secrets & Lies

Plot

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.

Genres

Drama

Year

1996

Runtime

142 min

Director

Mike Leigh

Cast

Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook, Lee Ross, Lesley Manville, Elizabeth Berrington, Michele Austin, Ron Cook

TMDB rating

7.6 / 10

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