See The Trailer For Mike Leigh’s HARD TRUTHS starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Premiering at TIFF’ 24
Exclusive Qualifying Run in Ny December 6 in Theaters Nationwide January 10, 2025
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments – brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. This expansive tilm from a master dramatist eagering into an interies: that kien indu lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.
Written & Directed by: Mike Leigh
Starring: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson, Sophia Brown, Jonathan Livingstone,
Produced by: Georgina Lowe
