Secrets & Lies

75.5 %|May 24, 1996|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 a working class white woman, Cynthia.

Featured Crew

Mike Leigh

Writer

Dick Pope

Director of Photography

Simon Channing Williams

Producer

Mike Leigh

Director

Andrew Dickson

Original Music Composer

Jon Gregory

Editor

Maria Price

Costume Design

George Richards

Sound Recordist

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Cast

Brenda Blethyn

Cynthia Rose Purley

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Hortense Cumberbatch

Maurice Purley

Monica Purley

Roxanne Purley

Paul

The Social Worker

Jane

Dionne

Stuart

Hortense's Brother

Hortense's Brother

Girl with Scar

Hortense's Sister in Law

Elias Perkins McCook

Hortense's Nephew

Jane Mitchell

Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)

Janice Acquah

Junior Optician

Keylee Jade Flanders

Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)

First Bride

First Bride's Father

Second Bride

Groom

Vicar

Best Man

Mother in Family Group

Grandmother

Nurse

Young Mother

Potential Suitor

Conjuror

Raunchy Woman

Raunchy Woman

Raunchy Woman

Man in Suit

Man in Suit

Man in Suit

Graduate

Grinning Husband

Fiance

Uneasy Woman

Elderly Lady

Laughing Man

Daughter

Father in Family Group

Boxer

Woman with Dog

Woman with Cat

Fertile Mother

Little Boy's Mother

Pin Up Housewife

Man in Suit

Glum Woman

Uneasy Man

Laughing Woman

Fiancee

Man in Suit