Secrets & Lies (1996)

R05/24/1996Drama2h 22m
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Roxanne drives her mother crazy. Maurice never speaks to his niece. Cynthia has a shock for her family. Monica can't talk to her husband. Hortense has never met her mother.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Brenda Blethyn

    Cynthia Rose Purley

  2. Cast 1

    Marianne Jean-Baptiste

    Hortense Cumberbatch

  3. Cast 1

    Timothy Spall

    Maurice Purley

  4. Cast 1

    Phyllis Logan

    Monica Purley

  5. Cast 1

    Claire Rushbrook

    Roxanne Purley

  6. Cast 1

    Lee Ross

    Paul

  7. Cast 1

    Lesley Manville

    The Social Worker

  8. Cast 1

    Elizabeth Berrington

    Jane

  9. Cast 1

    Michele Austin

    Dionne

If I ever get around to drawing up a list of my top 25 favorite non-blockbuster movies, Secrets and Lies would roll in very near the top. I have watched it a few times and expect I will continue to do so periodically. The acting is phenomenal. It is an ensemble cast, for sure, no superstars, but three of the main actors: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn and Claire Rushbrook, are among the best that Great Britain has produced. What I first saw this film, it was literally the first time I had seen those three perform, and I quickly learned to seek them out in other projects. I believe the movie ...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$4,500,000.00

Revenue $13,417,292.00

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