MOVIE
Secrets & Lies
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.
ERA & CONTEXT
Secrets & Lies in its release era
Released in 1996, Secrets & Lies sits inside the 1990s catalog. Explore its creators, studio connections, genres and nearby releases from the same period.
- Release
- 1996-05-24
- Rating
- R
- TMDB score
- 7.6/10
- Original language
- EN
- Status
- Released
- Production
- United Kingdom, France
- Studio
- CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films, Film4 Productions
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Topicslondon, englandparent child relationshipadoptionsocially deprived familyreunioncandidloving