Secrets & Lies
(1996)

Released: 1996-05-24

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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.

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Brenda Blethyn

as Cynthia Rose Purley

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste

as Hortense Cumberbatch

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Timothy Spall

as Maurice Purley

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Phyllis Logan

as Monica Purley

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Claire Rushbrook

as Roxanne Purley

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Lee Ross

as Paul

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Lesley Manville

as The Social Worker

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Elizabeth Berrington

as Jane

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Michele Austin

as Dionne

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Ron Cook

as Stuart

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Trevor Laird

as Hortense's Brother

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Brian Bovell

as Hortense's Brother

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Emma Amos

as Girl with Scar

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Clare Perkins

as Hortense's Sister in Law

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Elias Perkins McCook

as Hortense's Nephew

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Jane Mitchell

as Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)

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Janice Acquah

as Junior Optician

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Keylee Jade Flanders

as Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)

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Hannah Davis

as First Bride

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Terence Harvey

as First Bride's Father

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Mike Leigh

Writer

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Andrew Dickson

Original Music Composer

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Mike Leigh

Director

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Simon Channing Williams

Producer

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Dick Pope

Director of Photography

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Jon Gregory

Editor

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Alison Chitty

Production Design

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Maria Price

Costume Design

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George Richards

Sound Recordist

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Susie Parriss

Casting

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Paddy Stern

Casting

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Eve Stewart

Art Direction

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Georgina Lowe

Production Supervisor

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Zerlina Hughes

Third Assistant Director

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Jennie Osborn

First Assistant Director

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Josh Robertson

Second Assistant Director

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Chris Rose

First Assistant Director

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Hilly Benjamin

Assistant Art Director

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Nick Rose

Property Master

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Orin Beaton

Boom Operator

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