Movie
Secrets & Lies
76%
Audience score758 votes on TMDB
“Roxanne drives her mother crazy. Maurice never speaks to his niece. Cynthia has a shock for her family. Monica can't talk to her husband. Hortense has never met her mother.”
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.
- Screenplay
- Mike Leigh
- Music
- Andrew Dickson
- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 24/05/1996
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- US$ 5 M
- Box office
- US$ 13 M
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