Bleecker Street has dropped the official trailer for the drama Hard Truths [HTRUT] written and directed by Mike Leigh [MLEIG] who reunites with his Secrets and Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Hard Truths will open wide on January 10th.
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, 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.