Hard Truths | April 4 | Hopscotch Coffee | 8PM

Tickets for the 8PM screening of HARD TRUTHS

2024 • UK • 97 minutes • dir. Mike Leigh

Friday, March 14th
at Hopscotch Coffee + Kitchen (235 W Dodds)
$8 dollars | All Ages

Showtime: 8pm

TRAILER

Synopsis: Fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous, legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns with a 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.