Secrets & Lies
by
Mike Leigh
Retro: Mike Leigh
Following the death of her adoptive parents, dark-skinned optician Hortense begins the search for her biological mother. Despite all the odds, she finally manages to get her to agree to a meeting. The two women form a mother-daughter bond that meets with hostility from relatives.
- Genre: Drama
- Country, Year: France, UK, 1996
- Runtime: 142 Min
- Languages: English
- Director: Mike Leigh
- Cast: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth Berrington, Michele Austin
- Screenplay: Mike Leigh
- Cinematography: Andrew Dickson
- Editor: Jon Gregory
- Music: Andrew Dickson
- Producer: Simon Channing Williams
- Production Companies: Channel Four Films, CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films Ltd
- World Sales: MK2 Films
