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Secrets & Lies

1996
Directed byMike Leigh
2h 22m

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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Brenda BlethynCynthia Rose PurleyMarianne Jean-BaptisteHortense CumberbatchTimothy SpallMaurice Purley
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Drama
STATUSReleased
PRODUCTION
CiBy 2000Channel Four FilmsThin Man Films
RATING
7.6

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