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EAN
6867449000893

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Product Information

A successful career woman who has just buried her adoptive parents decides to search out her real mother.

Product Identifiers

EAN
6867449000893
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60944054

Product Key Features

Actor
Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Film/TV Title
Secrets and Lies
Director
Mike Leigh
Release Year
2007
Format
DVD
Language
English
Features
Theatrical Trailer\Interactive Menus\Scene Index
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Run Time
136 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate
15
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Number of Discs
1
Awards
Best Actress 1996 - Brenda Blethyn
Additional Information
Mike Leigh's superlative drama, at once hysterically funny and profoundly sad, examines a wounded contemporary British family. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a young black optometrist, has just buried her beloved adoptive mother. In her sorrow, she embarks on a search for her birth mother, who turns out to be Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), a white factory worker living a lonely life with her surly daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). No one in the family, except Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) and his wife Monica (Phyllis Logan), knows that the teenage Cynthia gave up a child for adoption without ever seeing the baby. Hortense contacts Cynthia, and after a heart-wrenching reconciliation, they become best friends. Maurice and Monica, childless but financially secure, are very fond of Roxanne and host a family barbeque to celebrate her twenty-first birthday. Cynthia convinces Hortense to attend the party and meet the family--as a mate from the factory--but during the cake and champagne celebration, the family's secrets and lies emerge in a cathartic, emotional sweep. Leigh's trademark for developing his films' characters and storylines from an intense series of improvisations with the actors themselves reaches its summit with Hortense and Cynthia's reunion in a coffee shop, resulting in another deeply moving portrait of a family at a personal crossroads.
Reviews
Rolling Stone - ...Transcendent and moving, not to mention blisteringly funny, SECRETS AND LIES is something very special indeed..., Sight and Sound - ...Moving....Affecting..., Film Comment - ...The piece moves buoyantly, it practically bounces....The mood is contagious; by the end, the viewer is inside this family...
Screenwriter
Mike Leigh
Sound source
Dolby Digital
Movie/TV Title
Secrets And Lies
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