Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies is a 1996 British film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn, who won the award for Best Actress at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. The film won numerous other awards and received several Academy Award nominations. The film tells the story of Hortense Cumberbatch, a successful black optometrist, who is adopted. After the death of her adoptive mother, she chooses to trace her family history and discovers that her birth m... more

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  • 1996

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Runtime:

  • 2 h 22 min

Estimated budget:

  • 4,500,000 (US$)

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Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the 1960s. In the 1970s he made the...

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  • 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.

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  • 2 h 22 min

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  • 4,500,000

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