Secrets & Lies
“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.”
- 1996
- 2h 22m
- R
★ 7.6 TMDB Rating · 755 votes
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
- Release date
- May 24, 1996
- Original language
- English
- Origin
- United Kingdom
Cast of Secrets & Lies
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
Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
Michele Austin
Dionne
Ron Cook
Stuart
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother
Where to Stream Secrets & Lies by Country
- United States
- Streaming on MaxRent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies
- United Kingdom
- Rent or buy on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
- India
- Rent or buy on Pijama Films
- Canada
- Streaming on Criterion ChannelRent or buy on Apple TV Store
- Australia
- Rent or buy on Pijama Films
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