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                  |  Secrets & Lies (1996)
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                    | Starring: | Brenda Blethyn,
Phyllis Logan,
Marianne Jean-Baptiste,
Emma Amos,
Elizabeth Berrington,
Lee Ross,
Claire Rushbrook,
Michele Austin,
Hanna Davis,
Timothy Spall,
Lesley Manville,
Ron Cook |  
                    | Director: | Mike Leigh |  
                    | Category: | Drama,
Family |  
                    | Studio: | 20th Century Fox |  
                    | Subtitles: | English, Spanish |  
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Length: | 142 mins |  
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Mike Leigh's widely acclaimed film, winner of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Picture, is a poignant, heartwarming drama that's as wildly funny as it is moving. After her adoptive parents die, a young black woman (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) seeks out her natural birth mother only to discover her mother is white. Equally shocked to learn the daughter she gave up for adoption is black, Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn - 1996 Golden Globe Winner, Best Actress, drama) insists it's a mistake. But she soon realizes it's true and when she springs her newfound daughter on the rest of the family, the resulting chaos leads to a series of secrets and lies being revealed at last.
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