Film · Drama
Secrets & Lies (1996)
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.
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.
- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Writers
- Mike Leigh
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Release date
- May 24, 1996
Cast
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
Michele AustinDionne
Ron CookStuart
Trevor LairdHortense's Brother
Brian BovellHortense's Brother
Emma AmosGirl with Scar
Clare PerkinsHortense's Sister in Law- Elias Perkins McCookHortense's Nephew
- Jane MitchellSenior Optician (as June Mitchell)
Janice AcquahJunior Optician- Keylee Jade FlandersGirl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)
- Hannah DavisFirst Bride
Terence HarveyFirst Bride's Father
