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Hard Truths
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Hard Truths (2025)

Comedy Drama
Rated R
97 min.
Release Date
December 6, 2024 (NY)
January 10, 2025
Digital Date
February 25, 2025
Director
Mike Leigh
Writer
Mike Leigh
Cast
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin
Running Time
97 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for language

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... Full synopsis »

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In Hard Truths, we are forced to sympathize with an absolute complete bitch—henceforth to be known as ACB—who just can’t get out of her own damn way.  Full movie review »