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Legendary director Mike Leigh returns to the modern world with a fierce, compassionate and often darkly humorous study of family and its thorny bonds. Reuniting with Leah for the first time since the multi-Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the amazing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman tormented by fear, grief-stricken and prone to furious tirades against her husband, her son and everyone watching. . Meanwhile, her easy-going younger sister, played by Michelle Austen (One More Year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as the contrasting temperaments of her salon clients and daughters share a shared warmth. This ambitious film from the great playwright takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty and the most enduring human secret: even through pain and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.