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.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1996
- Stars
- Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth Berrington, Michele Austin, Lee Ross and more
- Writer
- Mike Leigh
- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Producer
- Simon Channing Williams
When Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth mother, she doesn't expect that it will lead her to Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), a desperately lonely white factory worker whose tentative embrace of her long-lost daughter sends shock waves through the rest of her already fragile family.
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
- Picture
- Colour
- Soundtrack
- Music by Andrew Dickson.
Website links
Broadcast details
- All previous repeats
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- Monday 1st March 2021 at 12:55am on Film4
Recording details
- London - Filmed entirely on location in and around London