Hard Truths
Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:00pm
The Historic Theater
28 Chestnut Street
Marianne Jean-Baptiste has won multiple acting awards for her role, including from National Society of Film Critics, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics, Alliance of Women Film Journalists, African-American Film Critics Association.
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies) returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, 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, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), 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.
This expansive film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.
‘NR’ 97min
Tickets:
$16 Adults
$14 Seniors 60+, Students/Children, & Military/Veteran/First Responder
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