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Secrets And Lies (Blu-ray, 2021)

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Comedy drama written and directed by Mike Leigh. Hortense Cumberbatch (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a young and successful black Londoner who, after the death of her adoptive parents, is surprised to discover that her birth mother is in fact white single mum Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn). After an uncomfortable first meeting, Cynthia strikes up a rapport with Hortense and invites her to the 21st birthday party of her youngest daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook) where she meets Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) and his wife Monica (Phyllis Logan) and attempts to learn more about her family.

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

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EAN5050629647310

eBay Product ID (ePID)18048559259

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleSecrets and Lies

ActorTimothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

DirectorMike Leigh

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2021

LanguageEnglish

GenreDrama, Comedy

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

ReviewsRolling 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...

Additional InformationMike 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.

Movie/TV TitleSecrets And Lies

Sound sourceDolby Digital

AwardsBest Actress 1996 - Brenda Blethyn

ScreenwriterMike Leigh