Secrets & Lies Movie (1996)
A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.
Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn't even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother.
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Storyline
Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn't even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother.
Details
- Rated: R
- Runtime: 2:16 hours
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Mike Leigh
- Writer: Mike Leigh
- Actors: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook
- Language: English, Greek
- Country: France, UK
- Awards: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 33 wins & 37 nominations
- Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
- ASIN: B0006HBZD8
- Year Released: 1996
- Release Date: Feb 27, 1997
- DVD Date: Jan 31, 2005
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