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💥 Secrets & Lies is a 1996 drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it stars Marianne Jean-...
- 2 min
- 35.9K
- Darwin Pictures
Directed by Mike Leigh. With Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan and Claire Rushbrook.Blu-ray (Amazon) https://amzn.to/3OlPzG1Blu-ray (Criterion) ht...
- 2 min
- 24.8K
- HD Retro Trailers
1996 Secrets & LiesCategory: Drama Production: Channel Four FilmsDirector: Mike LeighCast:Timothy Spall ... MauricePhyllis Logan ... MonicaBrenda Blethyn ....
- 2 min
- 88.6K
- Klokline Cinema
With Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook. Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.
- (48K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Mike Leigh
- 1997-02-28
Plot. Hortense Cumberbatch, a black optometrist in London, embarks on a journey to trace her family history following the death of her adoptive mother. Despite warnings about potential challenges, she discovers her birth mother is Cynthia Purley, a white woman working in a cardboard box factory in East London.
AwardDate Of CeremonyCategoryRecipient (s)1997Simon Channing WilliamsSimon Channing WilliamsMike LeighBrenda BlethynAfter her adoptive mother dies, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a successful black eye doctor, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a lower-class white woman...
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- Drama
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Born from a painstaking process of rehearsal and improvisation with a powerhouse ensemble cast, Secrets & Lies is a Palme d’Or–winning tour de force of sustained tension and catharsis that lays bare the emotional fault lines running beneath everyday lives.