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Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh

1996

  • Drama
7.6

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.

Cast & crew

  • Mike LeighDirector
  • Brenda BlethynCynthia Rose Purley
  • Marianne Jean-BaptisteHortense Cumberbatch
  • Timothy SpallMaurice Purley
  • Phyllis LoganMonica Purley
  • Claire RushbrookRoxanne Purley
  • Lee RossPaul
  • Lesley ManvilleThe Social Worker
  • Elizabeth BerringtonJane

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