Hard Truths (2025)

Audience Score
64
Review Score
75
R 1 hr 37 minJan 10th, 2025Drama, Comedy
Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.

Hard Truths Review

‘Hard Truths’ has Director Mike Leigh Reunited with Actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste for a Caustic, Funny Film. Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman who suffers no fools, pushing everything around her away, but also confronting deeply-held family issues. Opening in theaters on January 10th, ‘Hard Truths’ finds director Mike Leigh back in some familiar modern-day territory after a couple of trips to the past for previous two movies ‘Mr.

Turner’ and ‘Peterloo.’ It’s also a welcome reunion for the filmmaker and one of his main muses, actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who here runs with a superbly-crafted character brimming with vinegar and criticism, who is nevertheless revealed to be a woman carrying heavy emotional burdens.

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:January 10th, 2025 - Buy Tickets
On Digital & Streaming:February 11th, 2025 - Watch Now
Movie Box Office Gross:$718,850 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Kent Sanderson, Richard Kondal, Gail Egan, Jennifer Eriksson, Alison Thompson, Mark Gooder, Andrew Karpen, Kent Anderson, Javier Méndez, Javier Pons, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek
Production Companies:Film4 Productions, The Mediapro Studio, Thin Man Films, Creativity Media, Cornerstone Films