Secrets and Lies

Nominated for five Oscars, including Best Original Screenplay, the film also won the 1996 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The screenplay of the award-winning film Secrets and Lies which centres around a young black Londoner's search for her biological mother, who turns out to be a depressed, unmarried white woman. The climactic lunch party exposes skeletons in the family closet and leaves the characters shattered, but renewed.