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Secrets & Lies
Film · 1996
Mike Leigh
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Film 1996

Secrets & Lies

family truth ritualadoption-reunion catharsisworking-class warmth
Director
Mike Leigh
Year
1996
Region
United Kingdom
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Synopsis

Secrets & Lies is a 1996 comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it focuses on a dysfunctional family whose relations are thrown into further chaos after Cynthia is contacted by her adult daughter Hortense, who was put up for adoption at birth...

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Secrets & Lies is a 1996 comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it focuses on a dysfunctional family whose relations are thrown into further chaos after Cynthia is contacted by her adult daughter Hortense, who was put up for adoption at birth...
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