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Secrets & lies / October Films ; CIBY 2000 in association with Channel Four Films present a CIBY 2000/Thin Man production ; produced by Simon Channing-Williams ; written and directed by Mike Leigh.
LIBRA VHS PN1995.9.F35 S43 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dysfunctional families--Drama.
- Dysfunctional families.
- Multiracial people.
- Adoption.
- Adoption--Drama.
- Deception--Drama.
- Deception.
- Multiracial people--Drama.
- Motion pictures, British.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, British.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (142 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Secrets and lies
- Place of Publication:
- [Beverly Hills, CA] : CBS Fox Video/Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [1997]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- After her adoptive parents die, a young black woman seeks out her natural birth mother only to discover her mother is white. Equally shocked to learn her daughter she gave up for adoption is black, Cynthia insists it's a mistake. But she soon realizes it's true and when she springs her newfound daughter on the rest of the family, the resulting chaos leads to a series of secrets and lies being revealed at last.
- Participant:
- Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean- Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook.
- Credits:
- Photographer, Dick Pope; editor, Jon Gregory; music, Andrew Dickson.
- Notes:
- Originally released as motion picture in 1996.
- Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Awards for Best Picture and Best Actress.
- ISBN:
- 0793943892
- OCLC:
- 36818736
- Publisher Number:
- 086162438936
- 4389 CBS Fox Video/Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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