Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1996-05-24) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 5 Oscars. 36 wins & 47 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $13,417,292 |
| Screen: | Mike Leigh |
| Productions: | CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films, Channel Four Films |
| Production Countries: | France, United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 4154: Brenda Blethyn - Cynthia Rose Purley
- 17352: Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Hortense Cumberbatch
- 9191: Timothy Spall - Maurice Purley
- 127164: Phyllis Logan - Monica Purley
- 68384: Claire Rushbrook - Roxanne Purley
- 93177: Lee Ross - Paul
- 72305: Lesley Manville - The Social Worker
Crews
- 65452: Mike Leigh - Writer - Writing
- 68047: Andrew Dickson - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 65452: Mike Leigh - Director - Directing
- 20423: Simon Channing Williams - Producer - Production
- 60085: Dick Pope - Director of Photography - Camera
- 10725: Jon Gregory - Editor - Editing
- 1657215: Alison Chitty - Production Design - Art
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Reviews
CRCulver
Review text:
SECRETS AND LIES is a 1996 film by Mike Leigh that, appropriately enough, is concerned with the things that members of a family conceal from each other. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a black woman in London who has made a successful career as an optician, knew from a young ag ....
Continue reading ->Peter McGinn
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If I ever get around to drawing up a list of my top 25 favorite non-blockbuster movies, Secrets and Lies would roll in very near the top. I have watched it a few times and expect I will continue to do so periodically. The acting is phenomenal. It is an ensemble cast, for sure, no ....
Continue reading ->Filipe Manuel Neto
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**A good work, currently forgotten.** Just when I think I've seen all sorts of movies about racism, issues of race or prejudice, there's something new that comes out of nowhere, or some meritorious, well-made effort that's worth seeing. This film, initially, seemed to me just a sw ....
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