Secrets & Lies is screening in Toronto right now with 1 showtime at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema (Sep 6). Showtimes below come from each cinema's own listings and are refreshed several times a day. Directed by Mike Leigh, released in 1996, drama, 142 minutes long.
Hortense Cumberbatch, a successful Black British middle class Optometry in London who was adopted as a child, has chosen to trace her family history after the death of her adoptive mother. After being warned by public officials about the troubles she could face by tracking her birth mother down, she continues her investigation and is baffled to learn that her birth mother is white but does not resent this fact and wants to know more about her mother's past. Her birth mother, Cynthia Purley, is working class and downwardly mobile. Hortense meets her and later meets Cynthia's brother, Maurice Purley, a photographer, his wife Monica, and Cynthia's daughter Roxanne, a street cleaner.
via TheTVDB
