British Performances on Stage & Screen: Secrets & Lies (1996)

Directed by Mike Leigh, with Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn.

A young woman searches for her mother, who gave her up for adoption at birth, fearful of even laying eyes on her. But as they are about to abruptly discover, the daughter is black; the mother white. And now the future, as well as the past, needs sorting out.

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