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Secrets and Lies
Description
The films follows a successful black woman and her white mother. When the woman's mother tries to hide her underprivileged status and when emotions run high, deceits are made, causing tears and scars that are difficult to repair.
The films follows a successful black woman and her white mother. When the woman's mother tries to hide her underprivileged status and when emotions run high, deceits are made, causing tears and scars that are difficult to repair.
Actors:
Elizabeth Berrington,
Stephen Churchett,
Texas,
Michele Austin,
Kate Doherty,
Ruth Sheen,
Keylee Jade Flanders
Elizabeth Berrington
3 August 1970, Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK
Stephen Churchett
10 April 1947, Bromley, London England, UK
Texas
Michele Austin
Kate Doherty
Ruth Sheen
1950, Stepney, London, England, UK
Keylee Jade Flanders
30 April 1986, London, England, UK
Genre:
Drama
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Brenda Blethyn #Channel Four Films #CiBy 2000 #Mike Leigh #Phyllis Logan #Thin Man Films #Timothy Spall
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March 01, 2005
Leigh's film stops short of catharsis, providing the potential for the characters' rebuilding of their relationships without suggesting that such projects are simple or immediate.
February 19, 2005
Secrets & Lies is littered with scenes that begin at a fever pitch before descending into a becalmed, meditative state.
Widgett Walls
February 25, 2003
An excellent drama of family dysfunction.
Frank Ochieng
June 26, 2004
An English mother-daughter racial melodrama that resonates with simplicity and insight. Leigh is considerate of his movie's identity and spirit just as much as demonstrates this with his wounded protagonists
July 01, 2004
The characters are so painfully real it's more like watching a documentary than a made-up story.
September 14, 2005
Leigh's script and direction pushes all the right emotional buttons without getting overly melodramatic.
March 18, 2011
In the hands of another director, it would have been a sentimental melodrama, a soap opera, but with nuanced writing and sharp helming, Mike Leigh mixes humor and pathos in equal measure.
November 13, 2003
His characters look normal, act normal, chatter, and scream. And even when they choose not to speak, not to give away secrets, they're still heard.
September 02, 2009
Much more than just a touching story of the ties that bind humanity and the way we reveal ourselves, "Secrets and Lies" (1996) is a staggering work of cinematic genius. It is truly a perfect film.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
March 26, 2003
Perhaps Mike Leigh's most popular film, but still packs a gut-punch.
May 07, 2006
It's hard to argue against it being a sharply observant and deeply felt melodrama, one that is accessible, contemporary and frightingly realistic.
Mike Clark
January 01, 2000
Leigh's best work yet is indisputably screen art, but it's a flesh-and-blood 'people' movie, too.
