Secrets & Lies (1996) ( Secrets et mensonges ) ( Secrets and Lies )

Secrets & Lies (1996) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Secrets et mensonges
Alternate Title: Secrets and Lies
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
European Film Awards
Golden Globes
Goya Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
136 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Mike Leigh

Written By:
Mike Leigh

Actors:
Timothy Spall ..... Maurice Purley
Phyllis Logan ..... Monica Purley
Brenda Blethyn ..... Cynthia Rose Purley
Claire Rushbrook ..... Roxanne Purley
Marianne Jean-Baptiste ..... Hortense Cumberbatch
Elizabeth Berrington ..... Jane
Michele Austin ..... Dionne
Lee Ross ..... Paul
Lesley Manville ..... Social Worker
Ron Cook ..... Stuart
Emma Amos ..... Girl with Scar
Brian Bovell ..... Hortense's Brother
Trevor Laird ..... Hortense's Brother
Claire Perkins ..... Hortense's Sister-in-Law (as Clare Perkins)
Elias Perkins McCook ..... Hortense's Nephew

Synopsis:

A family is forced to confront the personal issues they've been avoiding for years in this powerful, realistic drama. Cynthia (Blethyn) is a working-class British woman whose life has been a long series of painful disappointments. She's single with no romantic prospects and a dead-end job at a box factory. Her daughter Roxanne (Rushbrook) works as a street sweeper and is chronically bitter. Cynthia helped raise her brother, Maurice (Spall), who is doing well as a photographer, but she rarely sees him and usually blames his wife, Monica (Logan). One day, Cynthia receives a phone call from a woman named Hortense (Jean-Baptiste), who claims to be the daughter Cynthia put up for adoption years ago. Cynthia initially reacts with panic, but she agrees to meet Hortense and is surprised to discover that she's a successful and soft-spoken eye doctor - and that she's black. Cynthia is soon convinced that Hortense is just who she claims to be, and they quickly form a friendship that gives Cynthia a new source of emotional strength. However, when Cynthia decides to introduce the family to her new 'friend,' it forces them to confront the lies and evasions that have kept them apart all these years.

Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn't even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother.

Roxanne drives her mother crazy. Maurice never speaks to his niece. Cynthia has a shock for her family. Monica can't talk to her husband. Hortense has never met her mother.

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