Hard Truths takes an astonishingly sensitive approach in telling the story of a bitter housewife.

Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...

‘Hard Truths’ sees Leigh in humane ... into a rehearsal room where they start to work out the beats of the film. Leigh keeps his department heads abreast of any developments.

You might know Jean-Baptiste from Leigh's wonderful 1996 film, Secrets & Lies ... Like nearly all Leigh's films, Hard Truths emerged from a rigorous months-long workshop process, in which the ...

The film examines her strained relationships with ... "Before we even knew the Hard Truth story, we'd sit down and fantasize about them having a Caribbean restaurant and all the customers that ...

Hard Truths is a drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. It is produced by Georgina Lowe and Henry Woolley and executive produced by Daniel Battsek, Jennifer Eriksson, Mark Gooder ...

Mike Leigh is reunited after almost three (gulp) decades with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and the results are as satisfyingly funny, bittersweet, and sad as fans could want.

But first, the latest film from the 81-year-old British auteur is “Hard Truths,” a reunion with ... ugly and beautiful way. The truth is that his magic isn’t a mystery, it just requires ...

That’s a hard truth of life — and the dramas that try ... Jane Curtin and Andy Kaufman — gets its own myth-burnishing movie courtesy of Saturday Night, a backstage comedy-drama depicting ...