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Secrets and Lies

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Secrets and Lies
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R,2hrs 22min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
February 28, 1997
Director:
Mike Leigh
Distributor:
20th Century Fox
Starring:
Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Phyllis Logan  ...more
Synopsis: A family is forced to confront the personal issues they've been avoiding for years in this powerful, realistic drama. Cynthia (Brenda 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 (Claire Rushbrook) works as a street sweeper and is chronically bitter. Cynthia helped raise her brother, Maurice (Timothy Spall), who is doing well as a photographer, ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Hastings, AMG Review
Mike Leigh's biggest success in America at the time, 1996's Secrets & Lies was also the closest the renegade director had ever come to fashioning a conventional melodrama. Its universal themes of familial reunion and forgiveness no doubt contributed to its success at the box office -- as well as with the Academy, who nominated it for five Oscars -- but there's no mistaking the unforced, nuanced rhythms ... Full Review
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