Overview
Plot
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful Black optometrist, searches for her birth mother and is shocked to find Cynthia, a working-class white woman.
- Directors
- Mike Leigh
- Cast
- Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook, Lee Ross, Lesley Manville, Elizabeth Berrington, Michele Austin, Ron Cook, Trevor Laird, Brian Bovell, Emma Amos, Clare Perkins, Elias Perkins McCook, Jane Mitchell, Janice Acquah, Keylee Jade Flanders, Hannah Davis, Terence Harvey
- Country
- United Kingdom, France
- Genre
- Drama
- Release date
- 1996-05-24
- Studios
- CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films, Channel Four Films
Plot
Warning: spoilers
Secrets & Lies Plot and Cast
Following the death of her adoptive mother, Hortense, a successful Black optometrist, sets out to find her birth mother. Her search leads her to Cynthia, a working-class white woman, a discovery that surprises her and sets the story in motion.
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