‘Hard Truths’: Read The Screenplay That Returns Seven-Time Oscar Nominee Mike Leigh To Modern London
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scrips behind the buzziest awards-season movies continues with Hard Truths, the newest film from seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Leigh that reunited him with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
After its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Bleecker Street gave Hard Truths a New York qualifying run in early December and sends it out wide in theaters Friday.
The release comes after the pic scored nominations from the Gotham Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards, and Jean-Baptiste winning Best Actress prizes from the Los Angeles and New York film critics and landing a Critics Choice Awards nom.
After a span of period films including Peterloo (2018) and the JMW Turner biopic Mr. Turner (2014), Leigh returns to contemporary London with the dark but often comical Hard Truths.
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