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Critic Roger Ebert
rated 10

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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Kasper Løvborg
rated 9

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 ...

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Michael Thomsen
rated 9

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

3 years ago

Cast & Crew

Mike Leigh
Director
Mike Leigh
Writer
Timothy Spall
As Maurice Purley
Phil Davis
As Man in Suit
Peter Wight
As Father in Family Group
Alison Steadman
As Woman with Dog
Lesley Manville
As The Social Worker
Liz Smith
As Woman with Cat

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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.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Secrets & Lies include The Secret Path, Fight Club, The Shawshank Redemption, Good Will Hunting, American History X, American Beauty.

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Secrets & Lies was released in theaters on May 24, 1996.

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Secrets & Lies was released for streaming on January 21, 2022.