The Secret [Blu-ray]

The Secret [Blu-ray]
by Vincent Perez

List Price: ~~$35.98~~
Our Price: $17.49
You Save: $18.49 (51%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $15.14 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD details

Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada

DVD details

Actor: David Duchovny, Lili Taylor, Olivia Thirlby
Director: Vincent Perez
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT

DVD Reviews of The Secret [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: The Secret
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is very different from anything I've ever seen. It's thought provoking. I could feel the pain that the tragedy caused. David Duchovny's acting, as usual, was awesome and he's great to look at. Olivia Thirlby played the part of the daughter and the mother to perfection. Lily Taylor, though not pretty, is a fair actress and did a reasonable job as the wife. She played the blind girl in X-File episode, Mind's Eye, passably well.

DVD Review: Not snub-worthy in any way... see this today.
Summary: 5 Stars

The Secret is heartbreaking, emotional and beautiful. That is a near impossible balance to find in a film today. It may be a remake, but this is no slouch effort, and it stands alone. Normally I do not care for Duchovny at all, but he did a fine job here. The real credit, however, goes solely to Olivia Thirlby, who manages to portray two characters at once seamlessly. Freaky Friday may play body-switching for laughs, but The Secret gives you an idea of what really would transpire. I did not expect to like it as much as I did, and this is without a doubt a hidden gem.

DVD Review: inventive plot keeps the viewer engaged....
Summary: 4 Stars

this story based on spiritual transference is well done and keeps the viewer guessing throughout the film. Good drama. The family dynamics and dysfunction that are explored are interesting in their own right.

DVD Review: Uneven and unsatisfying
Summary: 2 Stars

This film is one of those that takes itself too seriously and in so doing ceases to remember that movies are first and foremost about entertainment. If you want to show you have depth become a swimming pool and if you want to send a message go to Western Union.

It began with a good idea, promised to deal with real human emotions and then became a disappointing cliche of PC whining, absurd plot resolutions and self-indulgence. Ultimately the emptiness of the plot is not the actor's faults, but rather that of the preachy and simple minded writer.

Save your nickel for something worth buying.

DVD Review: Movie review
Summary: 5 Stars

A somewhat trite storyline, but done really well, with no gratuitous sensuality! Ending may be a surprise, depending on how many movies of this type one has watched!

Description of The Secret [Blu-ray]

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 the expense of their daughter (Olivia Thirlby, Juno).

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

Love & Romance DVDs

Genres > Drama
Mystery & Suspense > General

DVD Video

Bestsellers in Love & Romance DVDs

Lost in Austen
Image Entertainment; Release date: 2009-04-14; DVD
Best price: $14.98
Price in other shops: ~~$27.98~~

Enchanted April
Release date: 2009-05-05; DVD
Best price: $19.98
Price in other shops: ~~$29.99~~

The Tudors - The Complete Second Season
Paramount; Release date: 2009-01-06; DVD
Best price: $19.93
Price in other shops: ~~$40.99~~

Last Chance Harvey
Release date: 2009-05-05; DVD
Best price: $9.75
Price in other shops: ~~$29.98~~

The Reader
Genius; Release date: 2009-04-14; DVD
Best price: $12.14
Price in other shops: ~~$29.95~~

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Blu-ray]
Paramount; Release date: 2009-05-05; DVD
Best price: $21.90
Price in other shops: ~~$39.99~~

Fireproof
Sony; Release date: 2009-01-27; DVD
Best price: $8.50
Price in other shops: ~~$28.96~~

Marley and Me (Single-Disc Edition)
Twentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2009-03-31; DVD
Best price: $10.45
Price in other shops: ~~$29.98~~

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Single-Disc Edition)
Paramount; Release date: 2009-05-05; DVD
Best price: $9.95
Price in other shops: ~~$29.98~~

Twilight (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Universal; Release date: 2009-03-21; DVD
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops: ~~$32.99~~

Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs

Smart People [Blu-ray]
Miramax; Release date: 2008-08-12; DVD
Best price: $11.99
Price in other shops: ~~$34.99~~

The Forbidden Kingdom (2-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray]
Lions Gate; Release date: 2008-09-09; DVD
Best price: $11.78
Price in other shops: ~~$39.99~~

Eagle Eye [Blu-ray]
Paramount; Release date: 2008-12-27; DVD
Best price: $16.00
Price in other shops: ~~$39.99~~

Iron Man (Ultimate Two-Disc Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray]
Marvel; Release date: 2008-09-30; DVD
Best price: $21.40
Price in other shops: ~~$39.99~~

What Happens in Vegas [Blu-ray]
Release date: 2008-08-26; DVD
Best price: $12.95
Price in other shops: ~~$39.99~~

Wanted (Limited Edition Collector's Gift Set) [Blu-ray]
Universal; Release date: 2008-12-02; DVD
Best price: $32.89
Price in other shops: ~~$69.98~~

The Happening (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
20th Century; Release date: 2008-10-07; DVD
Best price: $9.95
Price in other shops: ~~$39.99~~