What is a 1996 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, that was produced by a man who formed the film production company Thin Man Films in 1988?
Secrets &amp; Lies (film) Secrets & Lies is a 1996 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Hortense, a well-educated black middle-class London optometrist, who was adopted as a baby and has chosen to trace her family history – only to discover that her birth mother, Cynthia, played by Brenda Blethyn, is a working-class white woman with a dysfunctional family. Claire Rushbrook co-stars as Cynthia's other daughter Roxanne, while Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan portray Cynthia's brother and sister-in-law, who have secrets of their own affecting their everyday family life.
Triga Films Triga Films is a UK film company specialising in gay porn. Early pioneers of chav, scally, "straight lad" and working class gay films, the vast majority of which star raconteur Alexander 'the Toffee Boy' Austin. Company started in 1997 with release of its first film entitled "Skinhead", a mildly erotic documentary about the British Skinhead phenomenon and its links to gay working class culture, or gay skinheads Company also made a lesbian release entitled 'Dolly Birds' in 1999 before specialising entirely in gay male product. As the company has evolved the narrative of their films has centred on many typical working-class professions such as construction workers, "white-van-men", removal men and those in uniform. Whilst others have featured story-lines which portray a world set around 'hooligans', gangsters and disenfranchised urban unemployed men.