Secrets & lies  [videorecording] / 
 Secrets and lies 
a CiBy 2000/Thin Man production ; produced by Simon Channing-Williams ; written and directed by Mike Leigh. 
 - Widescreen format. 
 - Beverly Hills, Calif. :  Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,  2004, c1996. 
 - 1 videodisc (ca. 142 min.) :  sd., col. ;  4 3/4 in. 
<br/><br/> Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996.  "This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit this screen." 
<br/><br/>Photographed by Dick Pope ; edited by Jon Gregory ; music by Andrew Dickson.  Photographed by Dick Pope ; edited by Jon Gregory ; music by Andrew Dickson. 
<br/><br/>Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> MPAA rating: R. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD; Dolby digital surround; region 1. 
<br/><br/><br/>Soundtrack in English; subtitles in English or Spanish. <br/>Closed-captioned. 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>024543130338 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>AV00037501  BWI 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Adoptees--Drama.<br/>Birthmothers--Drama.<br/>Racially mixed people--England--London--Drama.<br/>Deception--Drama.<br/>Problem families--England--London--Drama.<br/>Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>London (England)--Social life and customs--Drama.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>DVD-Video discs.<br/>Feature films.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CM DVD 00904 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]  823/.914