"Secrets and Lies" will be shown at Dreamland Theater in Bath on Thursday, Jan. 24.
BATH — Sagadahoc Preservation's Dreamland Theater will screen "Secrets and Lies" at 7 p.m. on Jan. 24 at the Winter Street Center in Bath. The film tells the story of Hortense Cumberbatch, a successful black optometrist, who is adopted and has chosen to trace her family history. She discovers that her birth mother, Cynthia Purley, is a working class, "downwardly immobile" white woman.
"Secrets and Lies" is a 1996 British film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Timothy Spall, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Brenda Blethyn and Phyllis Logan. Blethyn won the award for Best Actress at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. The film won numerous other awards including the Palme d'Or and received five Academy-Award nominations.
The suggested donation is $5. Feel free to bring supper. Soft drinks and candies are available for $1 each. The Winter Street Center is the home of Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. For more information, email dreamland@sagadahocpreservation.org.
Report a correction
In order to make comments, you must verify your account.
In order to comment on SunJournal.com, you must use your real name and include the town in which you live in your profile. A member of our staff will call you to verify this information. To join in, fill out your user profile completely and check the box "please verify my status." We'll get back to you within one business day to verify your account.
Login or create an account here.
Our policy prohibits comments that are:
- Defamatory, abusive, obscene, racist, or otherwise hateful
- Excessively foul and/or vulgar
- Inappropriately sexual
- Baseless personal attacks or otherwise threatening
- Contain illegal material, or material that infringes on the rights of others
- Commercial postings attempting to sell a product/item
If you violate this policy, your comment will be removed and your account may be banned.