Secrets & Lies
1996
Palme d'Or — 49th Cannes Film Festival
- Director:
- Mike Leigh
- Studio:
- Thin Man Films, CiBy 2000, Channel Four Films
- Starring:
- Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
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Hortense Cumberbatch, a black optometrist in London, embarks on a journey to trace her family history following the death of her adoptive mother. Despite warnings about potential challenges, she discovers her birth mother is Cynthia Purley, a white woman working in a cardboard box factory in East London. Cynthia lives with her daughter Roxanne, a street sweeper, and tensions arise in their strained relationship.