Secrets and Lies
Summary:
A family is forced to confront the personal issues they've been avoiding for years in this powerful, realistic drama. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is a working-class British woman whose life has been a long series of painful disappointments. She's single with no romantic prospects and a dead-end job at a box factory. Her daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook) works as a street sw... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Brenda Blethyn - (Cynthia)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste - (Hortense)
Phyllis Logan - (Monica)
Timothy Spall - (Maurice)
Claire Rushbrook - (Roxanne)
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Review:
Mike Leigh's biggest success in America at the time, 1996's Secrets & Lies was also the closest the renegade director had ever come to fashioning a conventional melodrama. Its universal themes of familial reunion and forgiveness no doubt contributed to its success at the box office -- as well as with the Academy, who nominated it for five ... Continue >>
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