21/12

Hard Truths sees Mike Leigh return to the modern world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous examination of family and the thorny bonds that bind us. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, this sweeping film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty, and that most enduring of human mysteries: that even through a lifetime of pain and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.