Secrets & Lies

• 7.552 Drama
• 1996-05-24
• 142 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Mike Leigh

Writer:

Mike Leigh