May 24, 1996
142 min
Full-HD

Secrets & Lies (1996)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

United Kingdom France

Companies

CiBy 2000 Thin Man Films Film4 Productions

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

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