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Secrets & Lies 1996

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Released1996-05-10 + 12 more
Runtime2h 22m
DirectorMike Leigh

WriterMike Leigh
CountryFrance
LanguagesEnglish
StudiosThin Man Films + 2 more, CiBy 2000, Film4 Productions
GenresDrama

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After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a working class white woman, Cynthia.

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Cast 56

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

Trevor Laird

Hortense's Brother

Brian Bovell

Hortense's Brother

Emma Amos

Girl with Scar

Clare Perkins

Hortense's Sister in Law

Elias Perkins McCook

Hortense's Nephew

Jane Mitchell

Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)

Janice Acquah

Junior Optician

Keylee Jade Flanders

Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)

Hannah Davis

First Bride

Terence Harvey

First Bride's Father

Kate O'Malley

Second Bride

Joe Tucker

Groom

Richard Syms

Vicar

Grant Masters

Best Man

Annie Hayes

Mother in Family Group

Jean Ainslie

Grandmother

Lucy Sheen

Nurse

Frances Ruffelle

Young Mother

Nitin Ganatra

Potential Suitor

Metin Marlow

Conjuror

Su Elliot

Raunchy Woman

Amanda Crossley

Raunchy Woman

Di Sherlock

Raunchy Woman

David Neilson

Man in Suit

Peter Waddington

Man in Suit

Peter Stockbridge

Man in Suit

Rachel Lewis

Graduate

Paul Trussell

Grinning Husband

Jonny Coyne

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