Top billed cast

1. 

   Brenda Blethyn

   Cynthia Rose Purley

2. 

   Marianne Jean-Baptiste

   Hortense Cumberbatch

3. 

   Timothy Spall

   Maurice Purley

4. 

   Phyllis Logan

   Monica Purley

5. 

   Claire Rushbrook

   Roxanne Purley

6. 

   Lee Ross

   Paul

7. 

   Lesley Manville

   The Social Worker

8. 

   Elizabeth Berrington

   Jane

9. 

   Michele Austin

   Dionne

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Reviews

A review by CRCulver

Written by CRCulver on 2018-05-27

SECRETS AND LIES is a 1996 film by Mike Leigh that, appropriately enough, is concerned with the things that members of a family conceal from each other.

Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a black woman in London who has made a successful career as an optician, knew from a young age that she was adopted, but only after her adopted mother's death does she decide to look up her birth mother. Hortense is shocked to find that it is Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), not just white but living in near-poverty and wallowing in regret. Cynthia has a tumultuous relationship with her acknowledged daughter Roxa...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$4,500,000.00

Revenue
$13,417,292.00

Keywords

• london, england
• parent child relationship
• adoption
• socially deprived family
• reunion
• candid
• loving