Hard Truths(2025)

Bleecker Street Media

R
1h 37m
- Comedy
- Drama

Release Date: Jan 10, 2025 | Moderate

Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.

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Releases

Original Release | Jan 10, 2025

Jan 24, 2025 | Moderate

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$171,840
Total US & Canada:
$808,122
Total International
$1,859,616
Total Worldwide:
$2,667,738

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Director & Top Cast

Mike Leigh
Director

Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Pansy

Michele Austin
Chantelle

David Webber
Curtley

Tuwaine Barrett
Moses

Ani Nelson
Kayla

Sophia Brown

Aleisha

Jonathan Livingstone

Virgil

Jo Martin

Nurse Salon Client

Llewella Gideon

Smoking Salon Client

Yvette Boakye

Other Salon Client

Chinenye Ezeudu

Other Salon Client

Diana Yekinni

Hairdresser

Elliot Edusah

Sofa Couple

Tiwa Lade

Sofa Couple

Alice Bailey Johnson

Furniture Assistant

Gary Beadle

Irate Motorist

Diveen Henry

Supermarket Customer

Other Details

Country of Origin: United Kingdom,Spain

Language: English

Summaries

Storyline

Pansy is a woman tormented by anger and depression, hypersensitive to the slightest possible offence and ever ready to fly off the handle. She criticises her husband and their adult son so relentlessly that neither bothers to argue with her. She picks fights with strangers and sales clerks and enumerates the world's countless flaws to anyone who will listen, especially her cheerful sister Chantal, who, despite their clashing temperaments, might be the only person still capable of sympathising with her.

Movie Review

Hard Truths

Mike Leigh returns from a lengthy excursion shooting period films to the kind of chamber piece he excels in, in ‘Hard Truths’, a small story about family dysfunction magnified into high drama by Mariane Jean-Baptiste’s formidable lead performance as a wife and mother going over the edge.

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