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Secrets & Lies (1996)

Film · 1996 · 142 min · R · Drama

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.

Directed by Mike Leigh

Starring Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook, Lee Ross, Lesley Manville, Elizabeth Berrington

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Release dates in United States

In cinemas20 February 1997
Digital release21 January 2022
Physical release15 April 1997
First release anywhere24 May 1996

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