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Secrets & Lies (1996)

Secrets & Lies (1996)

142 minutes EN Drama
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a working class white woman, Cynthia.
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Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
Claire Rushbrook
Roxanne Purley
Lee Ross
Paul
Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
Ron Cook
Stuart
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother

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Original Music Composer
Editor
Costume Design
Sound Recordist
Production Design
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Production companies: Thin Man Films, CiBy 2000, Film4 Productions
Production countries: France, United Kingdom
Budget: $4,500,000
Revenue: $13,417,292

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