---
title: 'Secrets & Lies (1996)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mike Leigh'
released: '1996-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 142
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/secrets-lies-1996'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117589/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Secrets & Lies (1996)

1996 · R · 142 min · Drama · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Secrets & Lies is a 1996 comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it focuses on a dysfunctional family whose relations are thrown into further chaos after Cynthia is contacted by her adult daughter Hortense, who was put up for adoption at birth and wishes to connect with her birth mother. Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, and Claire Rushbrook co-star as other members of the family.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mike Leigh](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-leigh)
- **Screenplay:** [Mike Leigh](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-leigh)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Andrew Dickson](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-dickson)
- **Producer:** [Simon Channing-Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/simon-channing-williams)
- **Director of Photography:** [Dick Pope](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-pope)
- **Editor:** [Jon Gregory](https://cinepixo.com/people/jon-gregory)

## Cast

- [Timothy Spall](https://cinepixo.com/people/timothy-spall) as Maurice
- [Phyllis Logan](https://cinepixo.com/people/phyllis-logan) as Monica
- [Marianne Jean-Baptiste](https://cinepixo.com/people/marianne-jean-baptiste) as Hortense
- [Nitin Ganatra](https://cinepixo.com/people/nitin-ganatra)
- [Gary McDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-mcdonald)
- [Brenda Blethyn](https://cinepixo.com/people/brenda-blethyn) as Cynthia
- [Ron Cook](https://cinepixo.com/people/ron-cook)
- [Alison Steadman](https://cinepixo.com/people/alison-steadman)
- [Peter Wight](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-wight)
- [Claire Rushbrook](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-rushbrook)
- [Hannah Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/hannah-davis)
- [Phil Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/phil-davis)
- [Terence Harvey](https://cinepixo.com/people/terence-harvey)
- [Liz Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/liz-smith)
- [Elizabeth Berrington](https://cinepixo.com/people/elizabeth-berrington)

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