After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a working class white woman, Cynthia.
Secrets & Lies is of 2 hour(s) and 22 minute(s). It is Produced By: Thin Man Films, CiBy 2000, Film4 Productions. It was released on 1996-05-24. It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
Genres: Drama
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