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Secrets & Lies (1996)

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2h 22min
Secrets & Lies

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Synopsis

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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Cast

Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn

Cynthia Rose Purley

Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Hortense Cumberbatch

Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall

Maurice Purley

Phyllis Logan
Phyllis Logan

Monica Purley

Claire Rushbrook
Claire Rushbrook

Roxanne Purley

Lee Ross
Lee Ross

Paul

Lesley Manville
Lesley Manville

The Social Worker

Elizabeth Berrington
Elizabeth Berrington

Jane

Michele Austin
Michele Austin

Dionne

Ron Cook
Ron Cook

Stuart

Trevor Laird
Trevor Laird

Hortense's Brother

Brian Bovell
Brian Bovell

Hortense's Brother

Emma Amos
Emma Amos

Girl with Scar

Clare Perkins
Clare Perkins

Hortense's Sister in Law

Elias Perkins McCook
Elias Perkins McCook

Hortense's Nephew

Jane Mitchell
Jane Mitchell

Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)

Janice Acquah
Janice Acquah

Junior Optician

Keylee Jade Flanders
Keylee Jade Flanders

Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)

Hannah Davis
Hannah Davis

First Bride

Terence Harvey
Terence Harvey

First Bride's Father

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