Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies is a critically acclaimed drama film directed by Mike Leigh, following Hortense, a successful black optometrist who discovers her birth mother is a working-class white woman named Cynthia.
ReleasedMay 24, 1996
Budget$5M
Box Office$13M
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