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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

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Comedy drama starring Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack. Widowed for two years and now recently retired from teaching religious studies, Nancy Stokes decides she wants to have good sex and so hires young sex worker Leo Grande to meet her at a London hotel to explore her desires. But is this really what she wants?

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Amber Wilkinson

A typically nuanced performance by Emma Thompson gives emotional heart to this measured consideration of an older woman's sexual emancipation. She plays retired and widowed schoolteacher Nancy, who decides to hire a young sex worker (Daryl McCormack) in a bid to finally explore, and potentially satisfy, her sexual desires. Director Sophie Hyde makes a virtue of the largely one-room setting - a hotel room - to emphasise Nancy's nervousness in the face of the charming and hunky Leo, armed with a checklist of stuff she wants to give a go, as he works through every trick in the book to ease her tension. The serious moments in Katy Brand's script are leavened by its warm sense of humour and generosity to both characters, and while the chamber setting is inevitably a little stagey, this is an affecting exploration of an outwardly self-assured woman gaining an altogether more internal sense of confidence.

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7.2/10

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Cast

rolenameNancy StokesEmma ThompsonLeo GrandeDaryl McCormackBeckyIsabella Laughland

Crew

rolenameDirectorSophie Hyde

Details

Theatrical distributor

Lionsgate

Released on

2022-06-17

Languages

English | Italian

Guidance

Swearing, sex scenes, nudity

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DVD

Formats

Colour

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