Secrets and Lies Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 142 mins
- Year produced:
- 1996
- Director:
- Mike Leigh
- Cast:
- Timothy Spall
- Phyllis Logan
- Brenda Blethyn
In the superb Secrets and Lies, it seems everyone has a secret, some more shocking than others. Hortense is a successful black woman who knows she was adopted and is determined to find her birth mother. In another part of London, a middle-aged Cynthia is trying to pull her fragmented family together. Soon the worlds of Hortense and Cynthia collide when Hortense finds out that Cynthia is, in fact, her biological mother. Their meeting exposes long-hidden family secrets that change everyone connected forever.
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Fascinating facts
Most of the script of Secrets and Lies was improvised - in preparing the film, director Mike Leigh told the cast about the character they were to play, and then allowed them to develop that character and their dialogue.