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Secret Friends is a film of genre Drama directed by Dennis Potter with Alan Bates
Secret Friends (1991)
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Add to a movie listSecret Friends is a 1991 British film written and directed by Dennis Potter and starring Alan Bates, Gina Bellman and Ian McNeice. It was based on Potter's novel Ticket to Ride. During a train journey, a man's fantasy spirals out of control.
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