Secrets & Lies
Released
May 24, 1996
Runtime: 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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Cast & Crew
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
- EM
Elias Perkins McCook
Hortense's Nephew
- JM
Jane Mitchell
Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)
Janice Acquah
Junior Optician
- KF
Keylee Jade Flanders
Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)
Mike Leigh
Director
Mike Leigh
Writer
Media
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