Secrets & Lies

*Sense and Sensibility* meets *The Social Network* by way of a British kitchen sink. A black optometrist discovers her working-class birth mother through a death and a file. The reunion is raw, the humor sharper than the images on screen.

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Mike Leigh directed Secrets & Lies in 1996. See Mike Leigh's full filmography, where to start with Mike Leigh, or where to go after you've seen everything by Mike Leigh.

Secrets & Lies was released in 1996 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 142 minutes.