UNITED KINGDOM · 1996

Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh
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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.

Year1996
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorMike Leigh
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