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Releasing on Dec 6, 2024
  • 2024
  • R
  • Bleecker Street Media
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Bleecker Street Media
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is 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 (Michele Austin) is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments - brimming with communal ...

Directed By: Mike Leigh

Written By: Mike Leigh

  • 2024
  • R
  • Bleecker Street Media
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Bleecker Street Media
  • 1 h 37 m

Hard Truths

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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87
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Summary Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is 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 (Michele Austin) is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments - brimming with communal ...

Directed By: Mike Leigh

Written By: Mike Leigh

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Universal Acclaim Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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100
Sep 24, 2024
Following his hugely ambitious period productions Mr Turner and Peterloo, the director returns to what might be considered the quintessential Leigh mode of tightly-framed domestic drama, and does so with exceptional bite.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 9, 2024
It’s a pleasure seeing the pair reunited for another piercing character study, this time with Baptiste squarely in the lead role. It’s dazzingly complex, bracing work.
By Richard Lawson FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 7, 2024
That’s Hard Truths, in a nutshell: people. People you won’t forget, courtesy of a handful of remarkable actors and a singular director who at the age of 81 remains a true treasure.
By Steve Pond FULL REVIEW
83
Sep 19, 2024
It’s a boldly uncompromising work that strips some of the more cheerful elements to the bone. Yet despite this, there’s still a sense of warmth, of optimism, of quiet humor that shows how this deft storyteller can still surprise and enthrall, incorporating another exceptional ensemble willing and able to do the work to bring his lines to life.
By Jason Gorber FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 11, 2024
Re-entering Mike Leigh’s stomping ground in Hard Truths is both a solace and, in the best possible way, a slap in the face. It’s also an impressively funny ordeal, in that unmistakably morose way no one has ever mastered better than Leigh.
By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 7, 2024
Leigh’s films can feel shaggy and unstructured on first viewing, and Hard Truths is no different. But there’s profound poetry in every scene.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 9, 2024
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.
By Patrice Witherspoon FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Creativity Media, Film4, The MediaPro Studio, Thin Man Films
Release Date Dec 6, 2024
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
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Website https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/hard-truths/
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Awards

Gotham Awards
• 2 Nominations
British Independent Film Awards
• 2 Nominations
Denver International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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