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Secrets & Lies

1996·142 min

Secrets & Lies

Directed by Mike Leigh

Drama

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.

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Cynthia Rose Purley

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Hortense Cumberbatch

Maurice Purley

Monica Purley

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Original Music Composer

Simon Channing Williams

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Director of Photography

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Claire Rushbrook

Roxanne Purley

Paul

Lesley Manville

The Social Worker

Elizabeth Berrington

Jane

Dionne

Stuart

Hortense's Brother

Hortense's Brother

Girl with Scar

Hortense's Sister in Law

Elias Perkins McCook

Hortense's Nephew

Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)

Junior Optician

Keylee Jade Flanders

Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)

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What is Secrets & Lies about?

Secrets & Lies (1996) is about 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.

Who directed Secrets & Lies?

Mike Leigh directed Secrets & Lies (1996).

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