Hard Truths

Name: Hard Truths
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: December 6, 2024
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 88

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Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: December 6, 2024 | R

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 communalPansy (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 warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. … Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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Caryn James

Sep 7, 2024

Leigh's strategy of taking us into his characters' world without prelude or explanation, letting the revelations and backstory waft out, help make his films feel authentic. He seems to have a magical ability to make the everyday captivating to watch Read full review

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Ty Burr

Jan 10, 2025

Where some Leigh films bear down on their main characters, “Hard Truths” feels expansive and forgiving, except when it comes to the mystery of Pansy herself. Read full review

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i Christina Newland

Feb 5, 2025

It’s a film about ordinary Londoners living ordinary lives and facing normal challenges, from mental health to domesticity. Baptiste is toweringly real: formidable and heartbreaking in her performance. Read full review

Peter Travers

Dec 6, 2024

In Mike Leigh’s lacerating new film, Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a hall-of-fame acting triumph as a London housewife and mother who’s mad at the world and ready to give us all a tongue-lashing. She’s an emotional powderkeg ready to blow. Better duck Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 7, 2024

Pansy’s general distaste for humanity would make Mr. Burns seem big-hearted by comparison, but Leigh’s faith in the root humanity of Jean-Baptiste’s performance — and in the hurt that guides it through even the broadest moments of humor — allows him to indulge in a variety of laugh-out-loud setpieces without any risk of losing Pansy to caricature. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Dec 10, 2024

That’s the magic of Leigh; it’s white magic, not the dark kind, drawing out compassion we almost don’t want to feel. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Feb 3, 2025

Great turns don’t always amount to a great picture, and the unfortunate consequence of this no-frills directing approach is that the film-making can feel rather flat and functional – a display cabinet for the acting rather than a vital piece of storytelling. Read full review

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