Secrets & Lies (1996)
"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.
Cast
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Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
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Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
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Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
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Claire Rushbrook
Roxanne Purley
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Lee Ross
Paul
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Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
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Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
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Michele Austin
Dionne
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Ron Cook
Stuart
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Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
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Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother
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Emma Amos
Girl with Scar
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Clare Perkins
Hortense's Sister in Law
