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Secrets & Lies
RELEASED • 1996 • DRAMA
Rating
3
Language
English
Runtime
142m
Popularity
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Overview
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.
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Cast
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Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
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Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
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Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
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Claire Rushbrook
Roxanne Purley
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Lee Ross
Paul
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Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wFz71bIKTlQoa8v1s243TIh5wUm.jpg)
Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
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Michele Austin
Dionne
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Ron Cook
Stuart
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