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Secrets & Lies
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1996 UK film by Mike Leigh
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7.6After 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.
Released: 1996-05-24142 minDir: Mike LeighDramaBudget: $4.5MBox office: $13.4M
Cast
- Brenda Blethyn as Cynthia Rose Purley
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Hortense Cumberbatch
- Timothy Spall as Maurice Purley
- Phyllis Logan as Monica Purley
- Claire Rushbrook as Roxanne Purley
- Lee Ross as Paul
Themes
- london, england
- parent child relationship
- adoption
- socially deprived family
- reunion
- candid
- loving
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Ratings
IMDb
8/10
50,519 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
Metacritic
92/100
- Year
- 1996
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 5 Oscars. 36 wins & 47 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 9th European Film Awards
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- adoption
- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Screenwriter
- Mike Leigh
- Producer
- Simon Channing-Williams
- Cinematographer
- Dick Pope
- Narrative location
- London
- Filming location
- London
- Duration
- 142
- FilmAffinity ID
- 487247
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1996-05-24
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Film
- film editor
- Jon Gregory
- title
- Secrets & Lies
- production designer
- Eve Stewart
- distributed by
- Film4 Productions
- set in period
- 1990s
- review score
- 8.0/10
- capital cost
- 4500000
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