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A Secret Love
Directed by
Chris Bolan
TV-MA
2020
83m
Documentary
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7.8
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Falling in love in 1947, two women -- Pat Henschel and pro baseball player Terry Donahue -- begin a 65-year journey of love and overcoming prejudice.
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Cast of A Secret Love
Terry Donahue
Self
Pat Henschel
Self
Diana Bolan
Self
Kim Donahue
Self
Tammy Donahue
Self
Jack Xagas
Self
John Byrd
Self
Yvonne Zipter
Self
Marge Summit
Self
Tracy Baim
Self
Jeff Samburg
Self
Chris Bolan
Director / Writer
Brendan Mason
Writer / Producer
Alexa L. Fogel
Writer / Producer
Ryan Murphy
Producer
A Secret Love Ratings & Reviews
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
"A Secret Love" weaves the couple's remarkable life story into a sensitive and intimate depiction of the two navigating the realities of growing older together...
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
"A Secret Love" is guaranteed to pull at your heartstrings.
POV Magazine
Pat Mullen
A Secret Love is a refreshingly intimate and sweet romance. Bolan's film is also a welcome celebration of marriage equality that is hard fought and well deserved.
Celluloid Dreams
Peter Canavese
Enough elements kicking around in it to keep it pretty interesting for its whole running time.
Chicago Reader
Taryn Allen
The Chicago-based documentary expertly weaves together LGBTQ history, baseball, and the ups and downs of loving someone for a lifetime.
Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)
André Hereford
A Secret Love is in a league of its own documenting the history, love story, and struggles of two pioneering lesbians.
Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)
Rachel Wagner
Enjoyed the history parts more than the current parts but worth watching
FilmWeek (LAist)
Lael Loewenstein
This is such a good movie, not just because of its portrait of these two women who had a closeted love affair for so many years... There is [also] an extremely poignant part of the film which is just how difficult it is to deal with elder care.
IndieWire
Jude Dry
"A Secret Love" is full of the kind of gentle ribbing and loving chuckles one would expect from any adorable old couple, but it's made all the more poignant by the fact of Pat and Terry's trailblazing personal histories.
Common Sense Media
Barbara Shulgasser
Docu about women forced to hide relationship for 70 years.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
It's enraging that society made them feel they had to hide. But their happiness is the ultimate triumph.
Entertainment Voice
Alci Rengifo
"A Secret Love," with its nostalgic tone flows like a recap of lives. To [Chris] Bolan's credit it's full of both admiration but honesty as well.
Decider
John Serba
If you want a universal treatise on the enduring nature of true love, this is it.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
A Secret Love stands out by being sweetly understated, at a time when that's especially welcome. It's a deeply felt testament to both the strength of this couple's bond, and the fragility and hard choices that often come at the end of a lifetime.
RogerEbert.com
Tomris Laffly
There is no crying in baseball, but you might just be reduced to a puddle of tears while watching Bolan's film, which finally brings the duo's love out of the shadows and gives it a long-overdue chance to shine freely.
The Hollywood Reporter
Robyn Bahr
Tender without being cloying, naturalistic without seeming contrived, A Secret Love may be the ideal antidote to your least-favorite queer tropes.
New York Times
Natalia Winkelman
It is a compliment that "A Secret Love," which runs under an hour and a half, could stand to be longer, with an expanded portrait of Terry and Pat's early life as a couple.
TheWrap
Steve Pond
Affecting at times and downright tear-jerking at others, their story is tied to the saga of gay life in America over the past 70-plus years.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Everyone who sees this film will have their own favorite moments.
Variety
Guy Lodge
At once a misty-eyed romance and a harsh depiction of the practical and emotional challenges of giving up independent living, "A Secret Love" isn't subtle in its Kleenex-clutching tactics... but it's certainly effective.
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