The Secret [Blu-ray] | ![The Secret [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515Jn06w7sL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Vincent Perez
Actors: David Duchovny, Lili Taylor, Olivia Thirlby
Studio: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 59482
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: EUR5079BD
UPC: 014381507959
EAN: 0014381507959
ASIN: B0019X3YUA
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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| • | In the spirit of Ghost and Birth, Hannah and Benjamin (Lili Taylor, Six Feet Under and David Duchovny, The X-Files) are a happily married couple whose love is tested in ways they never could have imagined in this touching supernatural drama. But when Hannah is killed in a car accident, the couple's strong bond may be responsible for an unusual twist of fate that keeps their love alive -- at th |
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Product Description
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 12-AUG-2008
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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Compared to pallid supernatural romances like Ghost, The Secret is a fireball of Freudian pathos about a love triangle between parents Benjamin (David Duchovny) and Hannah Marris (Lili Taylor), and their teenage daughter, Samantha (Olivia Thirlby). Directed by Swiss actor Vincent Perez, The Secret succeeds where other cheesy ghost films fail because there is always the possibility that after Benjamin's wife, Hannah, dies in a car accident and comes back to inhabit her daughter's body, Benjamin will be lured into his daughter's arms by sheer grief commingled with desire. The film's operates with increasing tension throughout, starting when Benjamin decides to believe that Sam is temporarily not Sam, but his wife. There are sappy scenes, such as when Sam, as mother Hannah, returns to high school following the accident and flails terribly in teenage situations. But the notion of a mother spying on her daughter through possession recalls Mommie Dearest, in a great way. The real credit in this film goes to Thirlby, who in essence plays two characters well, switching identities throughout. The sexual innuendo she brings to the part adds the zest The Secret needs to elevate it from a suburban nightmare to real horror. Viewers who enjoy The Secret might also look to Argento's mother trilogy, or the recently released French horror film, Inside. That said. The Secret contains no gore and relies on psychological suspense rather than violence to construct its mother/daughter tale. --Trinie Dalton
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 Tea: Why yes, I do believe, I think I shall have a half cup. January 11, 2010
Alexis Smith (USA)
Overall, I found this movie surprisedly good.
I thought the story was very unique. While I've seen several movies with people who switch places, or even possessions, I'd never seen one with this dramatic twist to it.
The story follows a regular family, mother and father and only daughter through their drudgery of their lives. The parents have a great relationship, but their sixteen year old daughter remains disengaged and aloof. Enter car accident, which changes the whole scene, dramatically.
I thought the casting was good. The girl (or woman) they got to play the daughter did an excellent job! Some of the directing and visual representations of scenes I found distracting. It was like they wanted to build up the moment, and then fell short.
The major thing that bothered me, was the end. A little too corny for my tastes. Could have been better written and better conveyed visually.
Two stars off for the extra-long, uber-sharp, rapaciously-poisonous Serpent's Tooth January 11, 2010
J. T. Larcade (United States)
Fantastic movie, anything but trite and cheesy, simply heartstopping. I could not move as I watched. And the abominable nastiness of the young girl toward her mother is so unrealistic that it took a spellbinding story indeed to keep me sitting there. Loved the pacing, the acting, love David Duchovney, and loved how the utmost limits were reached without crossing the line. Fear of that line being crossed is part of what keeps us watching: we think we're on a vigil, from around the middle to the end.
Again, on the daughter-character who turned my opinion from 5 stars to 3: I've known fewer than a handful of people who treat their mother even a fraction as bad as this girl does. The few who do are either monstrously spoiled (an ugly form of neglect), or the parents are inferior specimens who've made no attempt at child rearing. Everyone I know adores their mother, including teenagers. I know there are exceptions, but the daughter in this movie was abnormal, with no reason ever given for her to be THIS BAD. If they wanted her to be this bad, they should have made her parents selfish and deficient instead of selfless, dedicated, pretty much the parents we all want, and all would like to be.
Nice families, with mom and dad lifelong lovers, don't produce monsters like this. She is so bad, that if I knew her in real life, I'd suspect a serial killer in the making. The girl behaves like a sociopath. That's why this doesn't work for me. I might abide this sadistic treatment and hatred from a child of my own, but the girl in the movie is not my daughter, I don't love her, and no amount of "identifying" with the mother (and father) in the story helps me love their unrealistic, OTT snotty offspring. The girl's "life" coming out as a reason for her "gloom" is way insufficuent to explaining why she's the way she is. It's almost insulting, to me, that this is even suggested as a reason. Come on. We all have it tough, most of us a lot tougher than that.
There's a message of "contrast" in this movie that goes right to the objections I have to it. The daughter is presented as being worth more than her mother, not just because she is the child, but because the "message" sez so, as if her mother's highest function had been to produce this "amazing" daughter and then throw herself on the trash heap. I'm not talking about the decision/sacrifice the mother made in the hospital. That was no more than any mother would do. No, the mother is presented throughout as simply Less.
The message is STRONG, and I reject it.
 Sorry, but to be interesting, it needed to "cross the line". October 17, 2009
Hunter (Orlando, FL USA)
For those who would not have bought it/went to see it if it had, fine. But it had to have extrmely good reason not to, not simply fear the audience would be limited. Fiction doesn't frighten/gross me out. But, then, I know the difference.
 not entertaining August 6, 2009
S. Olson
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I will start off by stating that I had no idea what I was getting into, I had added The Secret to my instant Q some time ago and finally decided to watch it. For one, David Duchovny cannot act, the only thing he was ever good at was being Mulder. Two, creepy implied incest just does not do it for me. Not only was this the most boring movie of my life it was also one of the most appalling (and I have seen every Takashi Miike movie ever made). I cannot even begin to fathom why people are giving this movie positive reviews. The only thing I can come up with is that certain people just feel the need to like or pretend to like the taboo. Just because something is taboo does not mean it is cool or sexy or entertaining. Watching this movie was the biggest waste of my time.
 Weird July 7, 2009
Florence M. Herrera (Ca)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very differant kind of movie, if you like weird movies about the dead coming back you will like this one.
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