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Secrets & lies / CIBY 2000 in association with Channel Four Films present a CIBY 2000/Thin Man production ; a film by Mike Leigh ; produced by Simon Channing-Williams ; written and directed by Mike Leigh.
LIBRA DVD 006 054
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- 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.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Motion pictures, British.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen.
- Other Title:
- Secrets and lies
- Place of Publication:
- Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., [2004]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue, Spanish subtitles.
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD; Region 1; Dolby surround; dual layer.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- 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 Rushbook.
- Credits:
- Photographer, Dick Pope; editor, Jon Gregory ; music, Andrew Dickson.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
- OCLC:
- 57470666
- Publisher Number:
- 024543130338
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