Secrets & lies [videorecording] / a CiBy 2000/Thin Man production ; produced by Simon Channing-Williams ; written and directed by Mike Leigh.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: English Summary language: English, Spanish Publication details: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2004, c1996.Edition: Widescreen formatDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Secrets and lies
Uniform titles:
  • Secrets & lies (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 823/.914 22
LOC classification:
  • CM DVD 00904
Production credits:
  • Photographed by Dick Pope ; edited by Jon Gregory ; music by Andrew Dickson.
Cast: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook.Summary: Hortense, an adopted Black woman in London, seeks out her natural birth mother only to discover the woman is white. Equally shocked to learn the daughter she gave up for adoption is Black, Cynthia insists it's a mistake. But she soon realizes it's true. When Cynthia brings her newfound daughter home to meet her family-from-hell, all the secrets and lies, the deceptions and animosities come pouring out.
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DVD DVD Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Colección Multimedia (Humanidades 4to. Piso) CM DVD 00904 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000039371

DVD; Dolby digital surround; region 1.

Soundtrack in English; subtitles in English or Spanish.

Closed-captioned.

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

Photographed by Dick Pope ; edited by Jon Gregory ; music by Andrew Dickson.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996.

"This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit this screen."

MPAA rating: R.

Hortense, an adopted Black woman in London, seeks out her natural birth mother only to discover the woman is white. Equally shocked to learn the daughter she gave up for adoption is Black, Cynthia insists it's a mistake. But she soon realizes it's true. When Cynthia brings her newfound daughter home to meet her family-from-hell, all the secrets and lies, the deceptions and animosities come pouring out.

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