RSecrets & Lies

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Play Time: 142 mins
Drama
Secrets & Lies

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)
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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CRCulver

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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 ....

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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 ....

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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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