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, including the Palme d'Or, and received five Academy Award nominations. The film tells the story of Hortense Cumberbatch, a successful black optometrist, who is adopted and has chosen to trace her family history and discovers that her birth mother, Cynthia... More

Initial release date:

  • May 1996

Directed by:

Rating:

R

Runtime:

  • 2 h 22 min

Screenplay by:

Also known as:

  • Secrets and Lies,
  • Secrets & Lies,
  • Secrets et mensonges

Film

Directed by

Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the...

Tagline:

  • 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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Release date(s):

Film release region Release Date Film release distribution medium
  • Sep 27, 1996
  • 1996
  • Feb 1, 2005
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Music by:

Runtime:

  • 2 h 22 min
  • 2 h 16 min
  • 2 h 15 min
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Estimated budget:

Currency Amount
  • 4,500,000

Distributors:

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Awards

Academy Award for Actress in a Leading Role Nominees

Appears in ranked lists:

List Rank Note
  • 34
  • 481
  • 7.0
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Metacritic Top Films

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Film Winners

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Appears in ranked lists:

List Ranking
  • 34
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