Secrets & Lies (1996)

Directed by Mike Leigh · Drama

Starring Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook, Lee Ross, Lesley Manville, Elizabeth Berrington, Michele Austin, Ron Cook, Trevor Laird, Brian Bovell, Emma Amos, Clare Perkins, Elias Perkins McCook, Jane Mitchell, Janice Acquah, Keylee Jade Flanders, Hannah Davis, Terence Harvey, Kate O'Malley, Joe Tucker, Richard Syms, Grant Masters, Annie Hayes, Jean Ainslie, Lucy Sheen, Frances Ruffelle, Nitin Ganatra, Metin Marlow, Su Eliott, Amanda Crossley, Di Sherlock, David Neilson, Peter Waddington, Peter Stockbridge, Rachel Lewis, Paul Trussell, Jonny Coyne, Denise Orita, Margery Withers, Gordon Winter, Theresa Watson, Peter Wight, Gary McDonald, Alison Steadman, Liz Smith, Sheila Kelley, Angela Curran, Linda Beckett, Phil Davis, Wendy Nottingham, Anthony O'Donnell, Ruth Sheen, Mia Soteriou, Stephen Churchett

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With both her adoptive parents now dead, a black optometrist decides to make contact with her birth mother, but is shocked to find out that she is white.

My review · Reviewed 07/20/2022

This movie has a slow and steady burn that increases in intensity until the fantastic final scenes. I was really surprised that the movie ended up where it did, and I shouldn't have been. So often when I watch these supposed classics they do not live up to my expectations. Not this movie. The acting alone is worth the price of admission.

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