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Secrets & Lies (1996)
★ 7.6 · 722 ratings on TMDB
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
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.
DirectorMike Leigh
CastBrenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook, Elizabeth Berrington, Lee Ross, Lesley Manville, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
GenresDrama
The emergence reading
Secrets & Lies keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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