TY - ADVS AU - Spall,Timothy AU - Blethyn,Brenda AU - Logan,Phyllis AU - Leigh,Mike AU - Dickson,Andrew ED - CIBY 2000 (Firm) ED - Thin Man Films (Firm) TI - Secrets & lies AV - CM DVD 00904 U1 - [Fic]823/.914 22 PY - 2004///, c1996 CY - Beverly Hills, Calif. PB - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment KW - Adoptees KW - Drama KW - Birthmothers KW - Racially mixed people KW - England KW - London KW - Deception KW - Problem families KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - London (England) KW - Social life and customs KW - DVD-Video discs KW - lcsh KW - Feature films N1 - Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996; "This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit this screen."; Photographed by Dick Pope ; edited by Jon Gregory ; music by Andrew Dickson; Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook; MPAA rating: R N2 - Hortense, an adopted Black woman in London, seeks out her natural birth mother only to discover the woman is white. Equally shocked to learn the daughter she gave up for adoption is Black, Cynthia insists it's a mistake. But she soon realizes it's true. When Cynthia brings her newfound daughter home to meet her family-from-hell, all the secrets and lies, the deceptions and animosities come pouring out ER -