Secrets & Lies
“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.
7.6
1996
142 mins
Where to Watch
Videos (11)
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Secrets & Lies Q&A | Mike Leigh in Conversation
Featurette
Channel 4 Promo
Teaser
Mike Leigh on the Making of Secrets & Lies
Featurette
TV Promo - The Show Case Review
Teaser
US TV Spot
Teaser
Director's Cut: Mike Leigh on Secrets and Lies - Film 2011 With Claudia Winkleman - BBC
Featurette
Main Title Sequence
Clip
Photo Studio Scene
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Brenda Blethyn on Secrets & Lies
Featurette
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
Paul
Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
Michele Austin
Dionne
Ron Cook
Stuart
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother