Secrets & Lies
1996 · 2h 22m · Drama · United Kingdom, France · Rated R (US)
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.
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Mike Leigh7.4Smart score
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adoptioncandidlondon, englandlovingparent child relationshipreunionsocially deprived family
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