Secrets & Lies

Pros: characters, writing, acting
Cons: the pace could be a bit slow for some

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Pros: Emotionally powerful; great ensemble performances; intelligent nontrivial script; rich characters
Cons: Longish (but never boring); gritty film stock

I don't recall the last time that a film extracted so many of my pent-up tears with such honest and intelligent subject matter as this one. This is a poignantly dramatic film that takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride. Director Mike Leigh finds ...

Pros: Leigh's Direction/Script, Locations, Music, Editing, & Cast.
Cons: None.

Following 1993's controversial film Naked, Mike Leigh has created international attention for his film that explored a man's journey into London as he talks about philosophy while doing horrible things to the women around him. Despite the ...

Pros: Great story and screenplay; outstanding performances; truly dramatic
Cons: Some viewers might find it difficult to buy or see it as melodramatic.

Films about families tend to be overly-dramatic because very bad or very good things are always happening to the characters. "Secrets & Lies" is an exceptional drama about a shaky family who is suddenly thrown problems they don’t know how to react to. ...

Pros: Wonderful story and fabulous characters.
Cons: None

When at first we practice to deceive. Secrets and Lies is a film that shows how a family was been torn apart and nearly destroyed by the secrets and lies kept from each other. It's only as one of those lies surfaces that this family learns to...

Pros: Great Acting
Cons: None

This movie was not listed as a choice here at epinions and I asked the webmaster to add it. I got an email saying there was a problem getting it to say "Secrets and Lies" thus it is listed here as "Secrets."

I just had an...

Pros: Great acting, gripping storyline
Cons: None

'Secrets and Lies', written by Mike Leigh, was one of the most critically successful and original films of the 1990's. In an era of special effects, big budgets and good-looking-but-can't-act-for-toffee 'stars', 'Secrets...' was a breath of fresh air in...