Secrets & Lies (1996)

Movie Details

Original Title Secrets & Lies

Original Language EN

Budget $4,500,000

Revenue $13,417,292

Status Released

Popularity 1.6

Cast

Brenda Blethyn

Cynthia Rose Purley

Popularity: 3.0

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Hortense Cumberbatch

Popularity: 1.5

Timothy Spall

Maurice Purley

Popularity: 1.9

Phyllis Logan

Monica Purley

Popularity: 1.2

Claire Rushbrook

Roxanne Purley

Popularity: 0.8

Lee Ross

Paul

Popularity: 0.8

Lesley Manville

The Social Worker

Popularity: 1.6

Elizabeth Berrington

Jane

Popularity: 4.2

Michele Austin

Dionne

Popularity: 4.7

Ron Cook

Stuart

Popularity: 3.4

Trevor Laird

Hortense's Brother

Popularity: 0.8

Brian Bovell

Hortense's Brother

Popularity: 0.9

Key Crew

Producer Simon Channing Williams

Editor Jon Gregory

Writer Mike Leigh

Director Mike Leigh

Production

CiBy 2000

Channel Four Films

Thin Man Films

Videos & Trailers

Secrets & Lies Q&A | Mike Leigh in Conversation

Featurette

Channel 4 Promo

Teaser

Mike Leigh on the Making of Secrets & Lies

Featurette

Official Trailer

Trailer

United States TV Spot

Teaser

Director's Cut: Mike Leigh on Secrets and Lies - Film 2011 With Claudia Winkleman - BBC

Featurette

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Posters

Keywords

london, england parent child relationship adoption socially deprived family reunion candid loving

Reviews from TMDB

CRCulver 8/10

May 27, 2018

SECRETS AND LIES is a 1996 film by Mike Leigh that, appropriately enough, is concerned with the things that members of a family conceal from each other. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a black woman in London who has made a successful career as an optician, knew from a young age that she was a ... Read more

Peter McGinn 10/10

Aug 23, 2020

If I ever get around to drawing up a list of my top 25 favorite non-blockbuster movies, Secrets and Lies would roll in very near the top. I have watched it a few times and expect I will continue to do so periodically. The acting is phenomenal. It is an ensemble cast, for sure, no superstars, but ... Read more

Filipe Manuel Neto 6/10

May 20, 2023

**A good work, currently forgotten.** Just when I think I've seen all sorts of movies about racism, issues of race or prejudice, there's something new that comes out of nowhere, or some meritorious, well-made effort that's worth seeing. This film, initially, seemed to me just a sweet and average ... Read more