Secrets & Lies
1996/05/24 (US) | Drama
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.
Mike Leigh
Director
Lead Cast
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
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Budget
$ 4,500,000
Revenue
$ 13,417,292
Status
Released
Production Company
- CiBy 2000
- Channel Four Films
- Thin Man Films
Crews
Mike Leigh
Writer
Andrew Dickson
Original Music Composer
Simon Channing Williams
Producer
Dick Pope
Director of Photography
Jon Gregory
Editor
Alison Chitty
Production Design
Maria Price
Costume Design