Secrets & lies [dvd]
2014
DVDs
Cynthia's 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 works as a street sweeper and is chronically bitter. Cynthia helped raise her brother, Maurice, a successful photographer, but she rarely sees him and usually blames his wife, Monica. One day, Cynthia receives a phone call from a woman named Hortense, 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 optometrist - and that she's black. The two women quickly form a friendship that gives Cynthia a new source of emotional strength, but 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.
Main title:
Secrets & lies [dvd] / a film by Mike Leigh.
Author:
Imprint:
Australia Distributed by Madman Entertainment, [2014].
Collation:
1 videodisc (PAL, 142 min.) : DVD video, sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Notes:
DVD release of the 1996 motion picture.English. English Captions [descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired].
Credits:
Written and directed by Mike Leigh ; produced by Simon Channing Williams.
Performers:
Cast: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbook.
Audience:
Classification : M.
System details:
DVD, Dolby digital 2,0, Region 4, anamorphic widescreen 16:9.
Shelving notes:
33288 1 07-08-2014 0 nyctro 08-08-2014 7
Awards:
Best actress Brenda Blethyn Festival de Cannes ; Winner best British film BAFTA Awards 1997 ; nominated best director Academy Awards 1997 ; Nominated best actress Brenda Blethyn Academy Awards 1997 ; Nominated best picture Academy Awards 1997.
Dewey class:
791.4372
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
116039
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | DVD | SECR | Available |