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 that had already been turned into a stage play under the title Waiting for Gillian in 1957. The film stars Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson and Rupert Everett. Separate Lies marked the directorial debut of Julian Fellowes, who has worked mostly as an actor and won an Academy Award with his screenplay for Robert Altman's Gosford Park. "No life is perfect - even if it seems to be," says James Manning, a wealthy London solicitor. When it... comes to matters of right and wrong, he likes to think of himself as inflexible. Anne, his much younger wife, is accommodating and dutiful and likes the life they lead, the house in London, the Buckinghamshire hideaway. The couple seems to have it all, yet events soon will prove them wrong. In the village, a neighbour has reappeared: William Bule, son of a leading local family. He has recently returned from America, a bad marriage, and two children whose ages he cannot bother to remember. Bill is indolent and insinuating and at the village cricket match he catches Anne's eye.
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| Release date: | November 18, 2005 |
| Directed by: | Julian Fellowes |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 85 Minutes |
| Producer: | Christian Colson, Steve Clark-Hall |
| Editor: | Martin Walsh, Alex Mackie |
| Music by: | Stanislas Syrewicz |
| Cinematography: | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
| Screenplay by: | Julian Fellowes |
| Adapted from: | way through the wood |
| Genre: | Thriller |