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Secrets and lies

"Cynthia is a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with her confrontational daughter, Roxanne. Cynthia's brother Maurice is a successful wedding photographer who lives comfortably in suburbia with his snooty wife Monica. In a misplaced effort to re-unite the family, Maurice and Monica throw a small barbecue party for Roxanne's 21st birthday. When Cynthia brings along her new friend Hortense, chaos ensues as some painful truths are revealed." [box cover note].

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  • "Lügen & Geheimnisse"
  • "Secrets & lies"
  • "Secrets & lies"@en
  • "Skrivnosti in laži"
  • "Cheng lei she lu ying you xian gong si"
  • "Secrets & mensonges, français"
  • "Career girls"
  • "Segreti e bugie"@it
  • "Secrets and lies"@en
  • "Secrets and lies"
  • "Secrets et mensonges"
  • "Secrets et mensonges"@en
  • "Starring: Nrenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall"

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  • ""Cynthia is a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with her confrontational daughter, Roxanne. Cynthia's brother Maurice is a successful wedding photographer who lives comfortably in suburbia with his snooty wife Monica. In a misplaced effort to re-unite the family, Maurice and Monica throw a small barbecue party for Roxanne's 21st birthday. When Cynthia brings along her new friend Hortense, chaos ensues as some painful truths are revealed." [box cover note]."@en
  • "A young black optometrist wishes to find her birth mother after the death of her adoptive parents. She is distressed to discover her mother is white, but calls her anyway. They agree to meet and this is the emotional story of their reunion."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "After the death of her adoptive mother, Hortense, a young professional black woman, goes in search of her birth mother - the fragile, anxiety-ridden Cynthia. Intrigue turns to bemusement when she discovers that her mother is in fact a working-class white woman living with her surly 20 year-old daughter, Roxanne. No one in the family, except Cynthia's successful younger brother Maurice and his wife Monica knows that the teenage Cynthia gave up a child for adoption without ever seeing the baby. As they come to terms with their new-found bond, Cynthia takes Hortense to a family barbecue, which triggers the unravelling of the family's secrets and lies, in a cathartic, emotional sweep."@en
  • ""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 the 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"--Container."
  • "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. The two women 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."
  • "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. The two women 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."@en
  • ""A la suite du décès de sa mère adoptive, Hortense, une jeune femme noire, décide de rechercher sa véritable mère. Elle est bouleversée lorsqu'elle décou vre que celle-ci est blanche, et qu'elle a une fille de 20 ans. Malgré tout ce qui sépare la mère et la fille, une véritable relation de confiance et d'amour s'intaure peu à peu entre elles." (Source : jaquette)."
  • "Ouvrière et mère d'une fille de 20 ans, Cynthia mène une vie tristounette. Un jour, elle reçoit un appel d'une jeune femme prénommée Hortense qui prétend être sa fille. Cynthia accepte de rencontrer l'inconnue et découvre avec étonnement que celle-ci est noire, mais qu'il s'agit bien de sa première fille qu'elle fut forcée d'abandonner à la naissance. Après des retrouvailles difficiles, Cynthia et Hortense finissent par sympathiser. Mais Cynthia doit maintenant présenter sa fille au reste de sa famille."
  • "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 the 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."@en
  • "Al morir sus padres adoptivos, Hortense, una joven optometrista negra de Londres, siente la necesidad de conocer a su madre natural, que la dió en adopción. Ésta resulta ser una madre soltera que trabaja en una fábrica."
  • "Twee films waarin de relatie tussen twee vrouwen, resp. moeder en dochter en twee vriendinnen, centraal staat."
  • "A black woman looks for her mother who gave her up for adoption and is shocked to learn that her mother is white. The mother is likewise shocked to meet her black daughter."
  • ""Al morir sus padres adoptivos, Hortense, una joven optometrista negra de Londres, siente la necesidad de conocer a su madre natural, que la dió en adopción nada más nacer. Ésta resulta ser una madre soltera que trabaja en una fábrica""
  • "A black woman looks for the mother who gave her up for adoption and is shocked to learn that her mother is white; the mother is likewise shocked to meet her black daughter."
  • "Following the death of her adoptive mother, black optician Hortence begins a search for her natural parents. She manages to track down the now middle-aged Cynthia, who is white and has another daughter."
  • "Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a young, black optometrist whose adoptive parents have recently died. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with her confrontational daughter, Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) is a successful wedding photographer who lives comfortably in suburbia with his snooty wife Monica (Phyllis Logan). In a misplaced effort to re-unite the family, Maurice and Monica throw a small barbecue party for Roxanne's 21st birthday. When Cynthia brings along her new friend Hortense, chaos ensues as some painful truths are revealed."
  • "Alla morte dei genitori adottivi, una giovane donna nera decide di trovare la madre naturale. Scopre che è una donna bianca, fragile e frustrata, con un'altra figlia ventenne, infelice e aggressiva, e con un fratello in crisi. Durante una festa di compleanno vengono al pettine tutti i nodi dei legami affettivi. (Morandini)."@it
  • "Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn't even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother."
  • "Familiedrama over een Londense vrouw uit de arbeidersklasse, haar dochters en haar broer die zich heeft 'opgewerkt'"
  • "A young black woman searches for her birth parents and discovers that her mother is white."
  • ""Film opens gradually, with the funeral of the adoptive parents of a young black woman, Hortense ... an optometrist with a yuppie-ish London lifestyle. One by one, we meet the other characters, either at work or at home: middle-aged factory worker Cynthia ..., who lives with her unsmiling, argumentative daughter, Roxanne ..., a road sweeper, in a terraced house in a working-class area; and Cynthia's younger bro, Maurice ..., a portrait photographer who's moved to an upscale leafy suburb with his snooty wife, Monica. Plot driver is Hortense's decision, now that she's sans family, to discover her birth parents, a process set in motion with a ... scene between her and a social worker ... who warns of the angst such a move can provoke--not least when it emerges that her biological mother may have been white"--Variety review, May 13, 1996."@en
  • ""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." -- Back of container."
  • "Mike Leigh's award-winning drama starring Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Following the death of her adoptive mother, black optician Hortence begins a search for her natural parents. She manages to track down the now middle-aged Cynthia, who is white and has another daughter."
  • "After her adoptive parents die, a young Black woman seeks out her birth mother only to discover her mother is White."
  • "After her adoptive parents die, a young Black woman seeks out her birth mother only to discover her mother is White."@en
  • "A young black woman searches for her birth parents and finds that her mother is white."
  • "A young black woman searches for her birth parents and finds that her mother is white."@en
  • "Cynthia is an unmarried factory worker who lives in a state of siege with her perpetually enraged daughter, Roxanne. In sharp contrast, Cynthia's brother, Maurice, runs a thriving photographic studio and works hard to provide a luxury home for his neurotic, childless wife. Meanwhile, an adopted young black woman, Hortense, is scouring London for her real mother, who, she learns to her shock, is white."@en
  • "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."
  • "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."@en

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  • "Video recordings"@en
  • "Vidéo"
  • "Comedy"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Black films and programs"@en
  • "Films dramatiques"
  • "Drames"
  • "French films"@en
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  • "Films for the hearing impaired"@en
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  • "Drama"
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  • "fiction dramatique (fiction)"
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  • "engelske film"

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  • "Secrets & lies (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica)"
  • "Secrets and lies"@it
  • "Secrets and lies"
  • "Secrets and lies"@en
  • "Secrets and Lies"
  • "Secrets and lies [video ]"
  • "Secrets & Lies"@en
  • "Secrets & Lies"
  • "Secrets and lies (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica)"
  • "Secrets and lies Skrivnosti in laži"
  • "Secrets & lies / Career girls / [with] Katrin Cartlidge ... [et al.] ; mus. by Marianne Jean Baptiste and Tony Remy ; prod. by Simon Channing-Williams ; dir. by Mike Leigh"
  • "Hemmeligheder & løgne"
  • "Secrets & [and] lies"
  • "Secrets & lies Skrivnosti in laži"
  • "Secrets & lies (Motion picture)"@en
  • "Secrets & lies = crets & mensonges"
  • "Secrets and lies = Secrets et mensonges"
  • "Secrets & lies = Segreti e bugie"@it
  • "Secrets and lies (film)"
  • "Secrets & lies"@en
  • "Secrets & lies"
  • "Secrets & lies (Motion picture : 1996)"

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