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Secrets & Lies

Name: Secrets & Lies
Director: Mike Leigh
Genre: Drama
Released: 1996-05-24
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook

Drama

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.

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Cast

Brenda BlethynMarianne Jean-BaptisteTimothy SpallPhyllis LoganClaire RushbrookLee RossLesley ManvilleElizabeth BerringtonMichele AustinRon CookTrevor LairdBrian Bovell

Director

Mike Leigh

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