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.
Secrets & Lies has generally received very positive reviews.
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Secrets & Lies was released in 1996 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 346 reviews, giving Secrets & Lies (1996) an average rating of 83%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 88% and users giving an average score of 89%.
With a score of 83%, Secrets & Lies is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1996, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1996 with similar scores include films like Sling Blade and When We Were Kings.
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