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."
1996-05-24
7.6
en 142mDrama
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.
Writer
Mike Leigh
Original Music Composer
Andrew Dickson
Director
Mike Leigh
Producer
Simon Channing Williams
Director of Photography
Dick Pope
Editor
Jon Gregory
london, england parent child relationship adoption socially deprived family reunion criterion candid loving
Status
ReleasedRevenue
$13,417,292Budget
$4,500,000Countries
- United Kingdom
- France
Companies
- CiBy 2000
- Channel Four Films
- Thin Man Films
