Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
The Truth About Jane
TITLE DETAILS

The Truth About Jane

2000-08-07 · 91 min · ★ 6.3

Drama · Romance · TV Movie

High schooler Jane struggles with the self-discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl. However, this is only the start of Jane's troubles when her unaccepting mother Janice also contends with the surprising revelation brought forth by her only daughter.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Lee Rose
Production companies
Hearst Entertainment Productions, Orly Adelson Productions, Lifetime
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

Top Cast

Ellen MuthEllen MuthJane
Stockard ChanningStockard ChanningJanice
James NaughtonJames NaughtonRobert
Noah FleissNoah FleissNed
RuPaulRuPaulJimmy
Kelly RowanKelly RowanMs. Lynn Walcott
Jenny O'HaraJenny O'HaraBeth
Alicia LaganoAlicia LaganoTaylor
Kacy ClarkBrad
Tiffany WestlieTiffany WestlieKate
Kenny McKeonGrant
Michelle LaneBetsy
Amy DavidsonAmy DavidsonElizabeth
Melissa WolfklainMelissa WolfklainClaire
Molly SchafferMolly SchafferMargaret
Lucky HayesDorothy
Terey SummersLorraine
Maedell DixonSusan
Lillie RichardsonDr. Sanders

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Rental

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

Purchase

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

With ads

The Roku Channel, Tubi TV

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Recommendations

A Perfect Ending
★ 6.2
A Perfect Ending2012Drama · Romance

This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.

I Can't Think Straight
★ 7.5
I Can't Think Straight2008Drama · Romance

Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship. But Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made for her and escapes back to Jordan, while Leyla tries to move on with her new-found life, to the shock of her tradition-loving parents. As Tala's wedding day approaches, simmering tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself.

Elena Undone
★ 6.9
Elena Undone2010Drama · Romance

The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.

Camp Belvidere
★ 6.5
Camp Belvidere2014Drama · Romance

Camp Belvidere is a lesbian romance set in the 1950s about the coming of age of Camp Leader Rose and her forbidden encounter with Nurse Gin. It depicts the journey and evolution of a friendship into a romance between two women when their rapport would have been unlikely.

Palm Trees and Power Lines
★ 6.3
Palm Trees and Power Lines2023Drama · Romance

Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted by a chance encounter with Tom, a seductive man twice her age who promises an alternative to Lea's unsatisfying adolescent life.

Below Her Mouth
★ 6.8
Below Her Mouth2017Drama · Romance

An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.

Bloomington
★ 6.5
Bloomington2010Drama · Romance

A former child actress attends college in search of independence and ends up becoming romantically involved with a female professor. Their relationship thrives until an opportunity to return to acting forces her to make life-altering decisions.

The World Unseen
★ 7.0
The World Unseen2007Drama · Romance

A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.

All Over Me
★ 5.9
All Over Me1997Drama · Romance

Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of 90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All is changed one night when a violent and meaningless death rocks their lives.

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
★ 6.5
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister2010Drama · Romance · TV Movie

A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to live independently while juggling an affair with a married woman.

My Brilliant Career
★ 6.2
My Brilliant Career1979Drama · Romance

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.

Lost and Delirious
★ 6.8
Lost and Delirious2001Drama · Romance

After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.

When Night Is Falling
★ 6.3
When Night Is Falling1995Drama · Romance

Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petra, Camille throws her whole conservative life into disarray.

My Policeman
★ 7.5
My Policeman2022Drama · Romance

In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexuality was illegal.

Smooth Talk
★ 6.2
Smooth Talk1985Drama · Romance

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger.

Home for Christmas Day
★ 5.9
Home for Christmas Day2017Drama · Romance · TV Movie

Jane is a single mother dead set on protecting her teenage daughter Betsy from the harsh realities of life. When Betsy falls in love with an enlisted man, Jane tries her best to steer Betsy away from heartache. Little does Jane realize she and her daughter are about to learn important lessons of the heart and that taking chances can sometimes lead to the most extraordinary happy endings.

Loving Annabelle
★ 6.6
Loving Annabelle2007Drama · Romance

Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.

Iron Jawed Angels
★ 6.8
Iron Jawed Angels2004Drama · TV Movie

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Departure
★ 6.3
Departure2016Drama · Romance

An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.

The Object of My Affection
★ 5.8
The Object of My Affection1998Drama · Romance

A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.

Similar titles

Bug Diner
★ 6.6
Bug Diner2024Romance

A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.

Around the Pink House
★ 7.3
Around the Pink House1999Drama · Romance

One of the most popular Lebanese films of the late 1990s, Around the Pink House is a story that explores the changing urban landscape of Beirut after the Civil War. La maison rose (the pink house) is an old mansion in Beirut where the Nawfal family found shelter during the Civil War. Unfortunately for them, their immediate environment is rapidly changing, as many of the old shell-ridden buildings are being torn down and replaced by new construction projects. When Mattar, the owner of the pink house, decides to sell it to make room for a large commercial centre, the residents of the neighbourhood become divided between the shopkeepers and businessmen in favour of a different kind of modernity.

Sin Sisters
★ 3.9
Sin Sisters2003Drama

When a classmate is accidentally killed, real-life sisters Misty and Chelsea Mundae have to work together to try and hide the body. At a remote cabin in the hills they encounter Juli, who tests their loyalty.

Carmilla
★ 5.8
Carmilla2020Drama · Romance

In 19th-century Styria, isolated teen Lara's quiet life is upended by the arrival of mysterious, beautiful Carmilla, a female vampire with whom she develops an intense, homoerotic bond. As Lara's life slowly drains, themes of forbidden desire, identity, and the supernatural are explored, culminating in Lara's discovery of Carmilla's vampiric nature and a confrontation with her ancient lineage.

Phat Girlz
★ 4.7
Phat Girlz2006Romance

Two large women struggle to find love and acceptance in a culture where thin is in. Their lives take a dramatic turn when they meet the men of their dreams in completely unexpected ways.

1 Day
★ 5.1
1 Day2009Drama

This searing British thriller follows Flash (Dylan Duffus), who's safeguarding his buddy Angel's (Yohance Watson) cash until his release from prison. Now Angel is out -- and Flash is 100 pounds short. He turns to a lowlife named Evil (Tobias Duncan) for help, the first in a series of mistakes. Now, Flash has more than just Angel hunting him down. Directed by Penny Woolcock (Mischief Night), the film co-stars Ohran Whyte and Chris Wilson

Poster unavailable
★ 4.5
The Blue Car2014Drama

His grandmother's death brings Hansel from San Francisco back to Cuba to take care of his brother Marcos. The two brothers have grown apart. With the help of an old family game Hansel attempts to restore his brother’s trust that has been lost over the years.

Pintakasi
★ 10.0
Pintakasi2011Drama

About a young painter who arrives at an island made of garbage. He uses the island and its denizens as his canvas and fights to protect the island from forces that threaten it.

Onegin
★ 6.1
Onegin1999Drama · Romance

A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

Civil Brand
★ 7.0
Civil Brand2002Drama

Forced to work under slave-like conditions in a "prison for profit" program, the inmates of a mostly-African-American female prison, Whitehead Correctional, try to take over the institution.

Cold Souls
★ 6.0
Cold Souls2009Drama

Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.

City of Trees
★ 5.2
City of Trees2019Drama · Romance

A 20-something woman goes back to her hometown for the holidays for the first time in several years and is not only met with people from her past, but she's forced to deal with unresolved feelings too.

Daddy's Girl
Not rated
Daddy's Girl2019Drama

Lo (14) is living alone with her father at his farm. Bored and frustrated she's fantasizing about sexy boys, spying on the hot seasonal workers. Rune (45) is a single parent too busy making ends meet to be paying attention to his child becoming a young woman. When he catches her masturbating in her bedroom, he goes out of his mind thinking she's a victim of male sexuality. Daddy's Girl is about fear of losing and fear of not getting.

Bright Star
★ 6.6
Bright Star2009Drama · Romance

In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.

Unrelated
★ 5.8
Unrelated2008Drama

A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.

Upperdog
★ 6.4
Upperdog2009Drama

As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, him to material wealth on Oslo's west side, her to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now.

The End of Innocence
★ 5.0
The End of Innocence1990Drama

Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.

Lost in Beijing
★ 6.5
Lost in Beijing2007Drama · Romance

A look at modern-day life in China's capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife.

Violet Evergarden: Recollections
★ 8.4
Violet Evergarden: Recollections2021Drama · Romance

An emotionally scarred former child soldier becomes a letter writer in this condensed recap of the moving, gorgeously animated award-winning series.

the piety
Not rated
the pietyDrama

"Amidst grief and family estrangement, a teenager must break emotional barriers at his mother's funeral, triggering suffocation and guilt."

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.