Secrets & Lies
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.
Release Date: 1996-05-24
Drama
★★★★★★★★★★ (658 votes)
Official website: https://www.film4productions.com/productions/1996/secrets-and-lies
Casts
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
