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Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

HBO Max channel logoRComedy • Drama • Family Relationships
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Synopsis
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a successful black eye doctor, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a lower-class white woman, Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn). At first Cynthia denies the claim, but she eventually admits to birthing Hortense as a teenager, and the two begin to bond. However, when Cynthia invites Hortense to a family barbecue, Cynthia's already tense relationship with her family becomes even more complicated.
Cast
Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook, Ron Cook, Lesley Manville, Elizabeth Berrington, Michele Austin, Lee Ross, Emma Amos, Hannah Davis, Peter Wight, Gary McDonald, Alison Steadman, Liz Smith, Sheila Kelley, Angela Curran, Linda Beckett, Philip Davis, Wendy Nottingham, Anthony O'Donnell, Ruth Sheen, Mia Soteriou
Rating
RAdult Language
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Family Relationships

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