Secrets & Lies

1996 • 2h 22m • Drama

95%Rotten Tomatoes

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.

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.

Director

Mike Leigh

Writers

Mike Leigh

Status

Released