Secrets & Lies
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.
Film19962h 22mReleased
Drama
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- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Language
- English
- Released
- 1996-05-24
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
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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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