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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.
Where to watch Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies is streaming in the US on HBO Max and Criterion Channel.
It is also available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube and Fandango At Home.
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
- Trevor Laird as Hortense's Brother
- Brian Bovell as Hortense's Brother
Details
- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Released
- May 24, 1996
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films and Channel Four Films
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 7.6 / 10 from 755 votes
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