Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies (1996)

Timing: 2:22 (142 min)

7.541/10
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Release date

1996-05-24

Country

France, United Kingdom

Production

Film4 Productions, CiBy 2000, Channel Four Films, Thin Man Films

Genre

Drama

Budget

$4 500 000

Revenue

$13 417 292

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Director

Mike Leigh

Actors

Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook, Lee Ross, Lesley Manville, Elizabeth Berrington, Michele Austin, Ron Cook
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Scenario

Mike Leigh

Producer

Simon Channing Williams

Operator

Dick Pope

Composer

Andrew Dickson

Artist

Hilly Benjamin

Audition

Susie Parriss, Paddy Stern

Editing

Jon Gregory, Georgina Lowe
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After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a working class white woman, Cynthia. At first Cynthia denies the claim, but she eventually admits to birthing Hortense as a teenager, and the two begin to bond. However, when Cynthia invites Hortense to a family barbecue, Cynthia's already tense relationship with her family becomes even more complicated.

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