| Title: | Secrets and Lies | |
| Director 1: | Mike Leigh | |
| Country: | UK/France | |
| Year: | 1996 | |
| length: | 136 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Mike Leigh | |
| Cinematographer: | Dick Pope | |
| Editor: | Jon Gregory | |
| Producer: | Simon Channing-Williams | |
| Production company: | CIBY 2000/Thin Man Productions/Channel Four | |
| Cast: | Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 8 | |
| Synopsis: | Cynthia, a white working-class woman, receives a phone call from Hortense who claims to be the daughter Cynthia put up for adoption. Because Hortense is mixed-race, Cynthia and her family have to confront the lies and evasions which have been buried for years. | |
| Keyword 1: | dysfunctional family | |
| Keyword 2: | adoption | |
| Keyword 3: | white | |
| Keyword 4: | black | |
| Keyword 5: | London | |
| Keyword 6: | working class | |
| Keyword 7: | mother-daughter relationship | |
| Keyword 8: | class | |
| Keyword 9: | family | |
| Keyword 10: | mixed-race relationship | |
| Text Reference 1: | A Fuller Picture: The Commercial Impact of Six British Films with Black Themes in the 1990s | |
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