Secrets & Lies

1996 R 2h 22m 8

Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.

Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn't even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother.

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Studio(s): Thin Man Films, CiBy 2000

Originally Released: United States on May 24, 1996

Box Office Gross: $13,417,292.00

Budget: $4,500,000.00

Genres: Drama, Comedy