Secrets & Lies
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Secrets & Lies

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.

Directed by Mike Leigh

1997 Academy Awards® Best Picture Nominee. A black woman discovers her birth mother is a working-class white woman.

Cast

Brenda BlethynCynthia Rose Purley
Marianne Jean-BaptisteHortense Cumberbatch
Timothy SpallMaurice Purley
Phyllis LoganMonica Purley
Claire RushbrookRoxanne Purley
Lesley ManvilleThe Social Worker
Ron CookStuart

Crew

Mike LeighWriter, Director
Dick PopeDirector of Photography

Studios: CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films, Channel Four Films

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