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Secrets & Lies(Movie, 1996)

2h 22min | Genre: Drama
Secrets & LiesRating: 3.8/5 (with 255255 votes)
Secrets & Lies is a 1996 drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Hortense, a well-educated black middle-class London optometrist, who was adopted as a baby and has chosen to trace her family history – and discovers that her birth mother, Cynthia, played by Brenda Blethyn, is a working-class white woman with a dysfunctional family. Claire Rushbrook co-stars as Cynthia's other daughter Roxanne, while Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan portray Cynthia's brother and sister-in-law, who have secrets of their own affecting their everyday family life. Critically acclaimed, the film won the 1996 Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, as well as the Best Actress award for Blethyn. S... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Secrets & Lies

Palme d'Or National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay European Film Award for Best Film

About Secrets & Lies

With both her adoptive parents now dead, a black optometrist decides to make contact with her birth mother, but is shocked to find out that she is white.

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Secrets & Lies Official Trailer 1(Trailer, 1:44)

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Additional Information

Production countries: France, United Kingdom (UK)
Shot in: London
Plays in: London
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 24 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 05/24/1996
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Hemmeligheder & løgne"
"Hemmeligheder og løgne"
"Secretos y mentiras"
"Hemligheter och lögner"
"Secrets and Lies"
Budget: 4,500,000 USD
Revenue: 13,417,292 USD (= 298%)

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