Secrets & Lies(1996)
5/24/1996Released
9/27/1996Premiere
New York Film Festival
10/10/1996Premiere
Chicago International Film Festival
9/27/1996Theatrical (limited)
2/20/1997Theatrical
1/21/2022Digital
Kanopy
4/15/1997Physical
VHS
6/11/1997Physical
LaserDisc
2/1/2005Physical
DVD
3/30/2021Physical
The Criterion Collection Blu-ray
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
"Roxanne drives her mother crazy. Maurice never speaks to his niece. Cynthia has a shock for her family. Monica can't talk to her husband. Hortense has never met her mother."
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PRODUCTION
OriginUnited Kingdom/France
Languagesen
CompaniesCiBy 2000/Channel Four Films/Thin Man Films
Budget4.5 M$
Revenue13.4 M$
Estimate ROI298 %