Secrets & lies

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When Hortense, a Black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth mother, she doesn't expect that it will lead her to Cynthia, a lonely white factory worker whose tentative embrace of her long-lost daughter sends shock waves through the rest of her already fragile family.

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Adoption Drama

Deception Drama

London (England) Drama

Mothers and daughters Drama

Multiracial people Drama

More in this Genre:

Comedy films Feature films Fiction films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1070 The Criterion collection The Criterion collection ; 1070

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ISBN:

9781681438146
1681438143

Uniform Title:

Secrets & lies (Motion picture)

Edition:

Director-approved Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet
4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
Blu-ray
video file
Blu-ray
region A

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Secrets and lies

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1996
Wide screen (1.85:1)
Special features: new 2K digital restoration; new conversation between Leigh and composer Gary Yershon; new conversation between actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste and film critic Corrina Antrobus; audio interview with Leigh, conducted by film critic Michel Ciment in 1996; trailer; booklet containing an essay by film programmer and critic Ashley Clark
Director of photography, Dick Pope ; editing, Jon Gregory ; music, Andrew Dickson
Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook, Ron Cook, Lesley Manville, Elizabeth Berrington, Michele Austin, Lee Ross, Emma Amos, Hannah Davis
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
System requirements: Blu-ray player ; will not play on standard DVD players
Blu-ray; region A; 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio; requires Blu-ray player

Control Number:

3124933

UPC:

715515256810

Other Authors:

Amos, Emma, 1964- actor
Austin, Michele, actor
Berrington, Elizabeth, actor
Blethyn, Brenda, 1946- actor
CIBY 2000 (Firm), presenter, production company
Channel Four Films (Firm), presenter
Channing-Williams, Simon, film producer
Cook, Ron, 1948- actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Davis, Hannah, 1972- actor
Jean-Baptiste, Marianne, actor
Leigh, Mike, 1943- film director, screenwriter
Logan, Phyllis, actor
Manville, Lesley, actor
Ross, Lee, 1971- actor
Rushbrook, Claire, actor
Spall, Timothy, 1957- actor
Thin Man Films (Firm), production company

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