A well-acted film that starts out as a study of sibling rivalry and co-dependent behavior, THE SECRET RAPTURE takes several sharp turns and winds up as a confounding and unpersuasive allegory.
When patriarch Robert Coleridge dies, his daughters, judgmental corporate bluenose Marion (Penelope Wilton) and passionately soulful Isobel (Juliet Stevenson), must gather at his venerable country home and contend with their dubious inheritance: splenetic alcoholic stepmother Katherine (Joanne
Whalley-Kilmer). Marion and Katherine pressure Isobel into giving the widow a job--and temporary home--in a small graphic arts studio that she shares with boyfriend Patrick (Neil ...
Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
96 mins