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Secrets & Lies

Drama

1996, Movie, 2h 22min

Mike Leigh’s Palme d’Or–winning masterpiece charts the shockwaves that ripple through an already-fractured London family when Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a successful, adopted black optometrist, makes contact with Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn, winner of the best actress prize at Cannes), her desperately dysfunctional white birth mother, who is woefully unprepared to deal with the situation. With unexpected humor and gripping emotional realism, Leigh crafts an intricate, richly human exploration of the buried tensions and heartaches that run beneath the surface of family life.

"Secrets & Lies" — drama movie produced in UK and France and released in 1996. It has a very high rating on IMDb: 8 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 2h 22min. "Secrets & Lies" is currently available to stream on Max, The Criterion Channel and Amazon Prime ⎥ MAX and for rent and to buy on Apple TV, Amazon Store and Fandango at Home. Click on a playlink to watch it now!

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Reviews

Critic Roger Ebert

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The way the two women play this scene is fascinating. They're acting in real time, creating a new relationship on the spot, Cynthia feeling the first inner stirrings of this daughter...when her layabout Roxanne is a street sweeper.

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Critic David Cavanagh

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The result is hilarious, as touching a film as any Leigh has made.

Read full review at Empire

Kasper Løvborg

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Superb. The performances are great, Blethyn and Spall being the cream of the crop. Leigh's preproduction method ensures maximum believability. Only nitpick would be an ending that seemed maybe a little too clean for real life, especially for ...

4 years ago

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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...a really solid and enjoyable movie.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic Tom Cassidy

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A benchmark for comedy dramas, this award-winning 1996 film is a bonafide masterpiece.

Read full review at Common Sense Media

Michael Thomsen

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En af de helt gode Mike Leigh film. Vildt god.

3 years ago

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Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her biological mother after her adoptive mother's death. She discovers her mother, Cynthia, is a white woman living in a working-class neighborhood. Despite their initial hesitation, the two form a friendship, but their relationship becomes complicated when Hortense attends a family gathering and reveals her true identity to Cynthia's daughter Roxanne.