Secrets & Lies
- 1996 film
Mike Leigh's comedy drama in which an adopted optometrist sets out to find her birth mother. Also features Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan and more.
Secrets & Lies
This hilarious, bittersweet comedy from director Mike Leigh is an unmissable and moving slice of real life.
Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a young, black optometrist whose adoptive parents have recently died. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with her confrontational daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) is a successful photographer who lives comfortably in suburbia with his wife Monica (Phyllis Logan).
In a misplaced effort to re-unite the family, Maurice and Monica throw a small barbecue party for Roxanne's 21st birthday. When Cynthia brings along her new friend Hortense, chaos ensues and some painful truths are revealed.
First released: Monday 2nd March 2015
- Distributor: 4DVD
- Region: B
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 136
- Subtitles: English
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- Released: Monday 29th July 2019
- Distributor: Spirit Entertainment
- Region: B
- Discs: 1
- Subtitles: English
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- Distributor: 4DVD
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 136
- Subtitles: English
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