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Secrets & Lies (1996)

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.

  • May 24, 1996
  • 2h 22m
  • R
TMDB user score 7.6/10 757 votes on TMDB
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Story

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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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
  • Emma Amos Girl with Scar
  • Clare Perkins Hortense's Sister in Law
  • Elias Perkins McCook Hortense's Nephew
  • Jane Mitchell Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)
  • Janice Acquah Junior Optician
  • Keylee Jade Flanders Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)

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