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SECRETS & LIES

Directed by Mike Leigh
United Kingdom, France, 1996
Drama, Comedy
  • 142142 minutes

Synopsis

After her adoptive mother’s death, Hortense, a successful Black optometrist, establishes contact with her birth mother: a white working-class single mother named Cynthia. Cynthia denies Hortense is her daughter. Meanwhile, Cynthia and her young daughter Roxanne manage their love-hate relationship.

Synopsis

After her adoptive mother’s death, Hortense, a successful Black optometrist, establishes contact with her birth mother: a white working-class single mother named Cynthia. Cynthia denies Hortense is her daughter. Meanwhile, Cynthia and her young daughter Roxanne manage their love-hate relationship.