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Hard Truths

1h 37m Comedy Drama TRAILER for List
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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 film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.

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Caryn James BBC.com Leigh's strategy of taking us into his characters' world without prelude or explanation, letting the revelations and backstory waft out, help make his films feel authentic. Rated: 5/5 Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Jon Frosch Hollywood Reporter ... A vivid, superbly acted and directed portrait of psychic pain and its collateral wreckage, filled out with lashes of humor and tiny brush strokes of tenderness. Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Brian Tallerico RogerEbert.com Jean-Baptiste is breathtakingly good, and it’s so nice to have Leigh back on the dramatic scene. He’s essential to it. Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Brittany Patrice Witherspoon Screen Rant Thanks to a stunning lead performance from Jean-Baptiste and an ending that doesn’t take the easy way out, it is a must-watch. Rated: 3.5/5 Sep 15, 2024 Full Review Kevin Bourne SHIFTER Although there are scenes that could be hard for Black viewers to watch, the performances, story, and depictions of Caribbean culture, still make Hard Truths a film to watch and be proud of. Sep 14, 2024 Full Review Emma Badame That Shelf With Hard Truths, the prolific director touches on something profound and simple, and the result is a stunning, compassionate portrait of humanity likely to be considered among his very best. Sep 13, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis 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 film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.
Director
Mike Leigh
Producer
Georgina Lowe
Screenwriter
Mike Leigh
Distributor
Bleecker Street
Production Co
Thin Man Films, The Mediapro Studio, Film4
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 6, 2024, Limited
Runtime
1h 37m