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Secrets & Lies (1996)

Drama
83.5pt 83.5pt
With both her adoptive parents now dead, a Black optometrist decides to make contact with her birth mother, only to find out that she is white.
Cast
Cynthia Rose Purley
Brenda Blethyn
Hortense Cumberbatch
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Maurice Purley
Timothy Spall
Monica Purley
Phyllis Logan
Roxanne Purley
Claire Rushbrook
Paul
Lee Ross
The Social Worker
Lesley Manville
Jane
Elizabeth Berrington
Dionne
Michele Austin
Stuart
Ron Cook
Hortense's Brother
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
Brian Bovell
Girl with Scar
Emma Amos
Hortense's Sister in Law
Clare Perkins
Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)
Jane Mitchell
Junior Optician
Janice Acquah
First Bride
Hannah Davis
First Bride's Father
Terence Harvey
Second Bride
Kate O'Malley
Groom
Joe Tucker
Vicar
Richard Syms
Best Man
Grant Masters
Mother in Family Group
Annie Hayes
Grandmother
Jean Ainslie
Nurse
Lucy Sheen
Staff
Director
Mike Leigh
Producer
Simon Channing Williams
Writer
Mike Leigh
Original Music Composer
Andrew Dickson
Award
69th Academy Awards
BEST PICTURE : Nominated
DIRECTING : Nominated  /  Mike Leigh
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE : Nominated  /  Brenda Blethyn
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE : Nominated  /  Marianne Jean-Baptiste
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) : Nominated
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