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Release Date
• USA: Sep 16, 2005
BoxOffice: $0.8M
Official Website:
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for language including some sexual references.
Running Time
1 hour, 25 minutes
Country UK
Production Companies
Celador Films, DNA Films, FilmFour, UK Film Council
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• A Way Through the Woods
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Genre: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Plot: The British actor Tom Wilkinson’s astonishing performance anchors SEPARATE LIES, a nuanced adult drama packed with moral dilemmas and existential questions. Julian Fellowes, who received an Academy Award for penning Robert Altman’s GOSFORD PARK, makes his first foray into the director’s chair with this sophisticated film, which centers around Wilkinson’s repressed upper class lawyer James Manning. A well-groomed British society couple, James and his lovely, polished wife Anne (BREAKING THE WAVE’s Emily Watson) live that sort of perfectly presentable life that John Cheever has made a literary career out of exposing. Cloaked under a veil of politeness, manners, and ultimately, self-delusion, they are so far deep into enacting their roles that they come to believe them. When their maid’s husband is killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident in front of their vacation home, James immediately suspects that his dashing and suspicious neighborhood Bill Bule was behind the wheel. Upon telling Anne his intention to relay the hypothesis to the law, he receives some shocking news; Anne and Bill have been carrying out an affair for months, and they were both in the car as it turned into a tool of manslaughter. These harsh facts that James is confronted with have the effect of years of
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| Written by |
Nigel Balchin
Barabbas, The Man Who Never Was, 23 Paces to Baker Street | |
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| Cast |
Tom Wilkinson
Batman Begins, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shakespeare in Love |
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 | Rupert Everett
Shrek 2, My Best Friend's Wedding, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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 | | John Warnaby
Wimbledon, Dark Blue World, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | | |
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| Music By |
Stanislas Syrewicz
Biggles: Adventures in Time, The Holcroft Covenant, Crime and Punishment |
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