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Plot

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny bonds that bind us. The multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies reunites Leigh for the first time since the film. The stunning Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a fear-ridden, suffering-ridden woman prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as their conflicting temperaments—her salon clients and her daughters are both full of communal warmth. This grand film by the master playwright takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty, and that most enduring of human mysteries: how, even in the face of lifetimes of pain and hardship, we find a way to love those we call family. h264 h264 episode