Timothy Spall
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Hortense Cumberbatch, a black optometrist in London, embarks on a journey to trace her family history following the death of her adoptive mother. Despite warnings about potential challenges, she discovers her birth mother is Cynthia Purley, a white woman working in a cardboard box factory in East London.
After the deaths of her adoptive parents, urbane young London optometrist Hortense (Jean-Baptiste) searches for her biological origins and locates her mother: alcoholic, neurotic, once-promiscuous factory worker Cynthia (Blethyn, in one of the finest film performances of all time).
- (48K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Mike Leigh
- 1997-02-28
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After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a successful black eye doctor, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a lower-class white woman...
- (45)
- Mike Leigh
- R
- Timothy Spall
Jan 28, 2009 · Comedy. 144 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1996. Roger Ebert. January 28, 2009. 6 min read. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) gets some surprising news from her past in "Secrets Lies." Too much attention is paid to Mike Leigh ‘s famous method for “devising” his screenplays.
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- Mike Leigh
- R
- 6
Oct 25, 1996 · Given the deep waters it dives into, “Secrets & Lies” is a good deal funnier and more entertaining than we have any right to expect. It begins with the black woman, a thirtyish optometrist with the quintessentially British name of Hortense Cumberbatch (played by Marianne Jean-Baptiste ).
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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 ...
