Secrets & lies / a CiBy 2000/Thin Man production ; produced by Simon Channing-Williams ; written and directed by Mike Leigh.

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Hortense, an adopted Black woman in London, seeks out her natural birth mother only to discover the woman is white. Equally shocked to learn the daughter she gave up for adoption is Black, Cynthia insists it's a mistake. But she soon realizes it's true. When Cynthia brings her newfound daughter home...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Secrets & lies (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: CIBY 2000 (Firm)
Thin Man Films (Firm)
Other Authors: Spall, Timothy, 1957-
Blethyn, Brenda, 1946-
Logan, Phyllis
Leigh, Mike, 1943-
Dickson, Andrew, 1979-
Language:English
Spanish
Language and/or Writing System:
Soundtrack in English; subtitles in English or Spanish.
Closed-captioned.
Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2004, ©1996.
Edition:Widescreen format.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Adoptees > Drama.
Birthmothers > Drama.
Racially mixed people > England > London > Drama.
Deception > Drama.
Dysfunctional families > England > London > Drama.
London (England) > Social life and customs > Drama.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Genre:
Drama.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Secrets and lies.
Format: Video DVD

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