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Secrets & Lies (1996) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Sep 27, 1996
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 1, 2005
Budget $4,500,000
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language.
Running Time
2 hours, 22 minutes
Country France, UK
Studio Channel 4, CiBy 2000, Film Four Distributors, Thin Man Films
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• Secrets & Lies
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Tear Jerker, Psychodrama, Suspense, Police
Tagline: 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.
Plot: Mike Leigh's superlative drama, at once hysterically funny and profoundly sad, examines a wounded contemporary British family. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a young black optometrist, has just buried her beloved adoptive mother. In her sorrow, she embarks on a search for her birth mother, who turns out to be Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), a white factory worker living a lonely life with her surly daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). No one in the family, except Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) and his wife Monica (Phyllis Logan), knows that the teenage Cynthia gave up a child for adoption without ever seeing the baby. Hortense contacts Cynthia, and after a heart-wrenching reconciliation, they become best friends. Maurice and Monica, childless but financially secure, are very fond of Roxanne and host a family barbeque to celebrate her twenty-first birthday. Cynthia convinces Hortense to attend the party and meet the family--as a mate from the factory--but during the cake and champagne celebration, the family's secrets and lies emerge in a cathartic, emotional sweep. Leigh’s trademark for developing his films’ characters and storylines from an intense series of improvisations with the actors themselves reaches its summit with Hortense and Cynthia’s reunion in a coffee
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Timothy Spall
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Last Samurai, Vanilla Sky |
 | Brenda Blethyn
Pride & Prejudice, A River Runs Through It, Little Voice |
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 | Phyllis Logan
Shooting Fish, All the King's Men, Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life | | | | |
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