Secret Smile (2005) (TV)

Director:

Christopher Menaul

Writers:

Kate Brooke (screenplay)
Sean French (novel)

Release Date:

12 December 2005 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

When Miranda (Kate Ashfield) Splits up with her creepy boyfriend Brendan (David Tennant) because he...

Plot Keywords:

Bathroom Scene | Attack | Drowning | Drowning In Bathtub | Rape

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Kate Ashfield	...	Miranda Cotton
David Tennant	...	Brendan Block
Claire Goose	...	Kerry Cotton
Jill Baker	...	Marcia Cotton
John Bowe	...	Derek Cotton
Keira Jane Malik	...	Naomi (as Keira Malik)
Susannah Wise	...	Laura
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Charlie Condou	...	Lawrence
James Daffern	...	Tony
Tim Faraday	...	Mick
Susie Gossling Valerio	...	Landlady
Rufus Jones	...	David
Ella Kenion	...	News Presenter
Rory Kinnear	...	Nick
Caroline Loncq	...	Magistrate
Robert Lowe	...	Troy Cotton
Sandy McDade	...	Susan
Patrick Myles	...	Harry Vermont
Daphne Neville	...	Laura's Mother
George Potts	...	Vicar
Daniel Ryan	...	Rob Prior
Richard Rycroft	...	Brendan's Lawyer
James Smith	...	Crown Court Judge
Badria Timimi	...	DI Jean Holmes
Donna Ward	...	Pub Girl
Ben Willbond	...	David's Friend

Runtime:

UK:180 min (including commercials) (2 parts)

Country:

Canada | UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Acton, London, England, UK

Company:

Canada TV

Goofs:

Continuity: When Naomi gets back from talking to Miranda in the car and enters the apartment, her hair is up in a clip when she puts the key in the door. It's down when she is coming in through the door and then it is back up in a clip when she pushes the door too.

Quotes:

Brendan Block: [just found out that Miranda wants to break up with him] Miranda, I love you.
Miranda Cotton: Just go.
Brendan Block: You Bitch.

A mediocre chick flick

Oh, Yawn. Not another chick flick where the men are all pigs and the women will get even for the abuse they suffered. The only difference is that, in this film, everybody's a pig or has mush for brains. I hated this film for the moral issue of why it's right to send a man to prison for life for a murder he didn't commit. Is that a more immoral act than his abuse and deviousness. This movie shows all the situational ethics of bad writing. I saw it on the CBC's "Best of Britain" series. If this is Britain's best, no wonder the British film industry is in trouble.

The only bright spot in this film was David Tennant, He plays his character as so despicable that I'm likely to spit on the next person who speaks with a Scottish accent. Kate Ashfield tries to play the victim but comes off in the end as immorally devious as David Tennant's character. They deserve each other.

In the mush for brains category are the parents who see nothing wrong with the obviously psychotic Brendan. English policemen are made out to be so incompetent that they're unfit to give out traffic tickets. The British Policeman's Union should sue the makers of this film for defamation.

This film isn't worth the electricity it takes to run your DVD to watch it.