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A damaged relationship is stretched to its desperate limits in this drama. Anne (Emily Watson) and James (Tom Wilkinson) are a seemingly happy and prosperous...
Oct 6, 2005 · 4 min read. Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson share "Separate Lies" over dinner. ‘Separate Lies” opens with an event so sudden it is over before it can be registered; only later do we discover that a man was knocked from his bicycle by a speeding car, which didn’t pause. The man was killed.
James Manning (Tom Wilkinson), a successful business lawyer, and his younger wife, Anne (Emily Watson), split time between a London apartment and a lush country estate.
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Separate Lies. Prominent London solicitor James Manning (Tom Wilkinson, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose") becomes suspicious of his aristocratic country neighbor Bill Bule (Rupert Everett, "Shrek 2," "Stage Beauty") when the man's Range Rover sports a deep scratch on the same day a local man's been felled by a hit and run driver.
Separate Lies is a 2005 British drama film directed by Julian Fellowes, who also wrote the screenplay, updating the 1951 novel A Way Through the Wood by Nigel Balchin, which had already been turned into a stage play under the title Waiting for Gillian in 1954.
Sep 16, 2005 · Like the best UK drawing room dilemmas, Separate Lies is more tart than bitter, with Fellowes, the Cambridge-educated son of a diplomat, acquitting himself grandly of cinematic boorishness. Read More
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A cyclist is killed, swiped by a Range Rover in a village lane. James and Anne Manning become involved because the victim is the husband of their cleaner, Maggie. James, a solicitor in the city, soon comes to suspect William Bule, a millionaire playboy who has moved back to the village.
