Firelight 1997   R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Nicholson
Cast: Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Dominique Belcourt, Kevin Anderson, Lia Williams, Joss Ackland, Sally Dexter, Emma Amos, Maggie McCarthy, Wolf Kahler
Set in 1830's England, the beautiful cinematography of this film adds greatly to the story about a governess, Elisabeth (Sophie Marceau), who agrees to bear the child of the aristocrat Charles Godwin (Stephen Dillane) in return for paying off her father's debt. She gives up the infant at birth only to be reunited with her daughter Louisa (Dominique Belcourt) seven years later when hired by Godwin as the governess for Louisa. 1 User Review
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| | wonderful film | sugar mom 01/11/2007 | I have seen this film three times and it it just mesmerizing to me. Truely this mother has live for her child she has never seen, and a true passion for the father of there child. I am very happy they get together at the end of the movie. Please see this movie.
I am a mother of a boy 21 yrs old. |
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Secrets & Lies 1996  R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth Berrington, Lesley Manville, Michele Austin, Lee Ross, Ron Cook, Emma Amos, Brian Bovell, Travor Laird
A reunion brings together family members for Roxanne's (Claire Rushbrook) 21st birthday. Those attending are Roxanne's lonely mother, Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn); Cynthia's brother, Maurice (Timothy Spall); and his wife, Monica (Phyllis Logan)–and a surprise guest, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a young Black woman searching for her biological mother who turns out to be Cynthia.
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| 1. Firelight (1997)
2. Secrets & Lies (1996)
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