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Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the modern world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous exploration of family and the thorny bonds that bind us. Reuniting with Leigh for the first time since the Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the stunning Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a fear-ridden, tormented woman prone to furious tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her in the eye. Meanwhile, her quiet younger sister, played by Michelle Austin (One More Year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as her conflicting temperaments—filled with the shared warmth of her salon clients and daughters. This ambitious film by a brilliant playwright takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty, and the most enduring human mystery: even in heartache and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.
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