Hard Truths

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a 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, 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.

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