Movie
Secrets & Lies (1996)
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.
Drama
Story
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.
Director: Mike Leigh Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan
Secrets & Lies Cast
- Brenda Blethyn as Cynthia Rose Purley
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Hortense Cumberbatch
- Timothy Spall as Maurice Purley
- Phyllis Logan as Monica Purley
- Claire Rushbrook as Roxanne Purley
- Lee Ross as Paul
- Lesley Manville as The Social Worker
- Elizabeth Berrington as Jane
- Michele Austin as Dionne
- Ron Cook as Stuart
- Trevor Laird as Hortense's Brother
- Brian Bovell as Hortense's Brother