The Secret | Davide Duchovny, Lili Taylor | "A 36 year old woman in a 16 year old's body. I'm every man's dream."     DVDs:     The Secret   The Secret Davide Duchovny, Lili Taylor IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT, 2008 average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image  for more information click here 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). the secret is hardly what you think it is This adaptation of a Japanese film was completely not what I expected - it's more a psychological thriller, a different, more intelligent take on the Freaky Friday motif. It brings up many moral and ethical issues that might arise with psychological disorders and traumas. Olivia Thirlby is brilliant and extremely effective in her first role in this film. David Duchovny has a few great moments and in the beginning of the film looks so young, it makes one reminisce the first years of The X-Files. Additionally, the soundtrack is very appropriate and very melodic.  for more information click here "A 36 year old woman in a 16 year old's body. I'm every man's dream." THE SECRET is a bit weird and disturbing. David Duchovny's wife and daughter, essentially estranged from each other, are in a horrific car crash. The daughter dies. The distraught wife dies at the same moment crying her daughter's name. Mysteriously, the daughter recovers, only she's no longer Duchovny's daughter, she's Duchovny's wife in their daughter's body. So far so weird. But THE SECRET, a bizarre take on FREAKY FRIDAY, gets a little disturbing as the Mrs. settles into her daughter's life, discovering (or rediscovering) the joys of being sixteen, including sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. She also sleeps with (but doesn't seduce) Duchovny, but the intimate adult-to-adult conversations between husband/father and wife/daughter are enough to make your skin crawl, since the line, though never crossed, is toed very tightly. There is a denoument, but to tell it would be to ruin the ending, and THE SECRET doesn't deserve to be ruined. It is worth watching, though the moral of the story is, unsurprisingly, a bit murky.  for more information click here Borders on Creepy..... While this movie doesn't quite cross the line (comes damn close), its hard to get past the creepiness of a Dad cuddling, and behaving in an intimate way with his daughter. The big revelation that the mom learns about her daughter is not so interesting. The daughter is nothing but a slut and druggie. Movie is just ok. Worthy of a rental, but barely. Weird is right Agree with other reviewer who said this movie is just weird. Putting aside that the look and feel of this movie is kind of low-budget, after-school special kind of cheap, I tried to focus on the story and the acting. Olivia Thirlby, who plays the young daughter/possessed by mom's ghost did a very impressive job of making both characters seem very real. Lily Taylor turns in a fine performance - and looks great, more attractive than any of her past roles (wondering if she had work done?) There were times in this movie when both actresses really moved me. David Duchovny... sigh. I am a fan. But every time I see him he just seems so one dimensional. It's like he IS Fox Mulder. I almost laughed when he went to the library to look up possession. The "lovey dovey" nature of the marriage that they set up at the beginning is a little too much. It might have been more interesting if these folks had a REAL marriage, with conflict and difficulty, and spent their last few months together after the wife's bodily death, working out their issues and saying goodbye instead of acting like a couple of jealous teens. What a rare chance to linger after your own death and get to say the things you never said. The idea that the mom goes on with the daughter's life and acts like a teenager was a little too "Freaky Friday". They could have done more with the confusion of how to mourn the death of one body, and disappearance of another soul, the soul of a beloved child. You'd like to think it would take a little more time before mom starts smoking pot and going to frat parties when she's in her little girl's body, looking for her daughter's soul. And the idea of the wife/daughter trying to seduce her husband/dad is just gross. It would have been nice if they had made the tension more about their emotional losses and less about sexual frustration. Thankfully the dad character doesn't go for it. Overall not great but worth watching for those who are interested in Duchovny's work.  for more information click here The Secret - Blu-ray Info Version: U.S.A / Region-A MPEG-4 AVC BD-25 / High Profile 4.1 Running time: 1:31:46 Movie size: 18,028,781,568 bytes Disc size: 23,827,206,008 bytes Average video bit rate: 19.98 Mbps DTS-HD Master Audio English 4084 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 4084kbps (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 1536kbps) Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps Subtitles: English SDH / Spanish Number of chapters: 12 reviews: page 1, 2, 3 products you might be interested in recommendations Movies.com New Releases 3   search for DVDs secret      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: DK Readers: Trojan Horse (Level 4: Proficient Readers)