Product Details

• Actors: Haydn Gwynne, Stella Gonet, Robert Bathurst, John Woodvine, Nerys Hughes
• Directors: Alrick Riley
• Writers: Lucy Floyd
• Producers: Carmel Maloney, Jim Reeve, Laura Mackie, Paul Rutman, Sally Haynes
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Bfs Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 7, 2006
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000GTJSC6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,205 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Secret" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

As Seen on BBC

From the Director of MI-5

"A deliciously twisted saga..." - The Mirror

"...the two lead performances from Haydn Gwynne and Stella Gonet are superb." - Birmingham Evening Mail

Revenge strikes hardest when life is built on a lie.

Emma Faraday is burdened by a devastating secret from her childhood - a secret she has kept hidden for years from everyone, including her husband. With two healthy children and a satisfying career, her happiness seems secure - until the day her old friend, Nadia, re-enters her life, seething with resentment and looking for revenge.

Armed with the closely guarded knowledge of that dark and terrible childhood event, Nadia seeks to systematically steal and destroy everything that Emma holds dear. Vulnerable to the threat of blackmail and impotent to halt the gradual disintegration of her perfect life, Emma wrestles her fear of exposure and inner guilt to find the strength to fight back - and keep the secret buried forever.

Starring: Haydn Gwynne (Merseybeat), Stella Gonet (The House of Eliot), Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet), John Woodvine (Vanity Fair), Lisa Millett (The Virgin Queen), David Troughton (All the King’s Men) and Archie Panjabi (The Constant Gardener)

Special Features: Cast Profiles

16:9 Aspect Ratio Widescreen

approx. 94 mins. col.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wrong DVD, January 22, 2007

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Greg Middleton "Christian living" (Altadena, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Secret (DVD)

I actually ordered this product by mistake but that is on me. I want to make sure that those who are looking for the secret regarding the law of attraction, please do not buy this by mistake as I did. Although it is a fairly decent story, it is not what you are looking for in the secret so purchase what you are looking for first and perhaps if you have extra money and time to spend then you can buy this one also, further down on your list.

This movie is about a life secret that people had been carrying for years. It finally caught up with them. It is a decent story, but definitely not "The Secret" you are expecting for spiritual growth, enlightenment, and/or financial success.

GEM
Altadena

50 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Joe Andersen, September 13, 2006

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Joe A. Andersen (Pocatello, ID) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Secret (DVD)

This documentary is expressing the message that all the great spiritual teachers of the ages such as Jesus, Bhudda, Confucius, Muhammad, and contemporary thinkers such as Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and James Allen have echoed. The message is simple but awesome, "thought, feeling, desire are at the very heart of material reality". It is because of this mystical quality that it may be easily dismissed as it has been by the massess through out history. At the same time the principle here as it has come to be best expressed in "quantum physics" maybe presented in a way that oversimplifies the complexity of the soul and reality. It has that amoral childlike quality that the greek Gods possessed, "omnipotence to serve their own egocentrism". But in so doing increases in clearity, power to motivate, light the imagination, and plants a powerful seed.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent film!, October 2, 2006

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jasminelotus (Transylvania, Romania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Secret (DVD)

I think the real value of the film lies in the fact that it gives a true meaning to "think optimistically" and "think positive". I have come across many people who believe they think positive but all they really do is applying a meaningless label to a heap of anxieties, pessimism, fear, you name it. That is not positive thinking. The film was invaluable for me in explaining how real positive thinking differs from what I have just mentioned.

I personally find that although they do repeat these slogans several times in the film, they have a good reason to do so: every time they expand on the concept and explain how to start thinking positively when you may find that you have no reason to do so or you do not know how to do so with all the unhappiness and negativity in your life.

I am familiar with the concept of positive thinking/the law of attraction, and have read a good deal of the literature on this concept, from a quantum physics, psychological or even theological point of view, but have not found such a vivid, comprehensible, step-by-step explanation of what it actually means and how to practice it.

If you just tell people that "according to the law of attraction you will attract more negativity in your life" they may not understand the hows and whys of this process. This film provides a detailed and highly useful explanation of the hows and whys involved in the creative process, according to which you need to feel, expect and act to elicit change.