Vera Drake
2004
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Jan 28, 2009 · A buried memory has surfaced. She begins to sob. The way the two women play this scene is fascinating. They're acting in real time, creating a new relationship on the spot, Cynthia feeling the first inner stirrings of this daughter who is an optometrist, when her layabout Roxanne is a street sweeper.
- Topsy-Turvy
Mike Leigh's "Topsy-Turvy" is the work of a man helplessly...
- High Hopes
The characters in “High Hopes” exist on either side of the...
- Topsy-Turvy
96% Tomatometer 45 Reviews 91% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a successful black eye doctor, seeks out her birth mother. She's...
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Oct 25, 1996 · Given the deep waters it dives into, “Secrets & Lies” is a good deal funnier and more entertaining than we have any right to expect. It begins with the black woman, a thirtyish optometrist with the quintessentially British name of Hortense Cumberbatch (played by Marianne Jean-Baptiste).
Secrets & Lies is a mesmerizing film, with the emotional stakes raised so high that each confrontation or revelation generates as much (or more) genuine suspense as anything found in...
Secrets & Lies (1996) - Secrets & Lies (1996) - User Reviews - IMDb. User Reviews. Review this title. 190 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 9/10. Wonderful, character-driven movie- Mike Leigh's genius strikes again! wisewebwoman 2 March 2006. Warning: Spoilers. 37 out of 40 found this helpful. Was this review helpful?
Season 1 – Secrets and Lies 2015 Crime Drama List 35% Tomatometer 34 Reviews 76% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Brilliant and unflappable homicide detective Andrea Cornell investigates cases.
Hilarious and gruelling by turn, Secrets & Lies proves that a film can have a big heart and a harsh edge, and that the British suburban landscape at its most mundane is a fascinating terrain...
