Secrets & Lies
Sign in to save1996 UK film by Mike Leigh
Film · TMDB
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 LeighDrama
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
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
8/10
50,519 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
Metacritic
92/100
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 5 Oscars. 36 wins & 47 nominations total
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Key dates
- Published
- 24 May 1996
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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