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Legendary director Mike Leigh returns to the modern world with a ferocious, compassionate and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since her multiple Oscar nominations in Secrets & Lies, the incredible Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman torn by fear, haunted by adversity and given to furious tirades against her husband, her son and anyone who gets in her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin (One More Year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as their contrasting temperaments, filled with the shared warmth of her salon clients and daughters. This expansive film from a superb playwright takes us into the poignancy of kinship, duty and that most enduring of human mysteries: even through lives filled with pain and hardship, we still find a way to love those we call family.
