- Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Release Date: Sep 27, 1996
- Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall
- Summary: A middle-aged London factory worker (Blethyn) is shocked when the mixed-race daughter she gave up at birth decides to track her down. At first she denies she is her mother. All family members become emotional, as everyone's secrets are exposed.
- Director: Mike Leigh
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 27
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Mixed: 1 out of 27
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100It moves us on a human level, it keeps us guessing during scenes as unpredictable as life, and it shows us how ordinary people have a chance of somehow coping with their problems, which are rather ordinary, too.
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100Leigh is an artist not at all blind to the world's darkness and pain. But the generosity and togetherness he and his company show in Secrets and Lies is something the movies -- and the world -- truly need. [25 October 1996, Friday, p.A]
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Secrets & Lies is all about wounds and our tendency to embrace placebos rather than the harder courses of treatment.
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60Unquestionably a finely observed, deeply felt work, though with some nagging problems in pacing and structure.
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Positive: 12 out of 12
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Mixed: 0 out of 12
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ShaniceT10Phenomenal film! Brilliant screenplay, direction, and acting.
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Macky10
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