TRACY LETTS

FRENCH EXIT (2021)
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Valerie Mahaffey, Susan Coyne, Imogen Poots, Danielle MacDonald, Isaach De Bankolé, Daniel Ditomasso and Eddie Holland. Directed by Azazel Jacobs.

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank - who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

REVIEWS French Exit - A farcical and ridiculous delight

FORD v FERRARI (2019)
Starring Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Caitriona Balfe, Noah Jupe, Scott Rapp, Josh Lucas, Ray McKinnon and Stefania Spampinato. Directed by James Mangold.

The remarkable true story of the visionary American car designer Carroll Shelby and the fearless British driver Ken Miles, who together battled corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.

REVIEWS Ford v Ferrari - A racing biopic that's right on track

LADY BIRD (2018)
Starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen Henderson, Lois Smith, Odeya Rush and Kathryn Newton. Directed by Greta Gerwig.

Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mum, a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father loses his job. Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.

REVIEWS Lady Bird - This is the best version of herself

THE POST (2018)
Starring Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Pat Healy, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk and Sarah Paulson. Directed by Steven Spielberg.

In June 1971 The New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation’s major newspapers took a brave stand for freedom of speech and reported on the Pentagon Papers, the massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned four decades and four U.S. Presidents. At the time, the Post’s Katharine Graham was still finding her footing as the country’s first female newspaper publisher, and Ben Bradlee, the paper’s volatile, driven editor, was trying to enhance the stature of the struggling, local paper. Together, the two formed an unlikely team, as they were forced to come together and make the bold decision to support The New York Times and fight the Nixon Administration’s unprecedented attempt to restrict the first amendment.

REVIEWS The Post - Streep and Spielberg strike gold in portrait of a complex woman

THE LOVERS (2017)
Starring Debra Winger, Tracy Letts, Aidan Gillen, Melora Walters, Tyler Ross, Jessica Sula and Eric Satterberg. Directed by Azazel Jacobs.

A husband and wife, each embroiled in a secret, extramarital affair, are sent reeling when they suddenly fall for the least likely person imaginable – one another – in this scalpel sharp and deliciously grown-up comedy that enters the fray where family, love and attraction become madly tangled.

REVIEWS The Lovers - Affair(s) to remember

INDIGNATION (2016)
Starring Logan Lerman, Sarah Gordon, Pico Alexander, Danny Burstein, Linda Eamond, Tracy Letts and Ben Rosenfield. Directed by James Schamus.

In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.

DEEP WATER
Starring Ben Affleck, Ana De Armas, Tracy Letts, Rachel Blanchard, Lilrel Howery, Jacob Elordi, Dash Mihok, Kristen Connolly, Jade Fernandez and Finn Wittrock. Directed by Adrian Lyne.

Inside the marriage of picture-perfect Vic and Melinda Van Allen, discovering the dangerous mind games they play and what happens to the people that get caught up in them.

CHRISTINE
Starring Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, Maria Dizzia and Timothy Simons. Directed by Antonio Campos.

In 1974 Florida, 29-year-old on-air news reporter Christine Chubbuck is both ruthlessly motivated and exceptionally intelligent. Despite her talents, she finds herself frequently at odds with her boss, who deviates from her interest in human-interest pieces and prioritises crime reporting, in the interest of ratings. Frustrated by the vacuous nature of her job, her lonely private life and deteriorating relations with her boss, Christine delivers the ultimate segment, live on air.

THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
Starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Anthony MacKie, Jeanine Serralles, Liza Colón-Zayas, Fred Hechinger and Mariah Bozeman. Directed by Joe Wright.

Dr Anna Fox is a recluse, living alone in her New York City brownstone, as she spends her days drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies... and spying on her neighbours. When the Russell family moves into the house across the way, they appear to be the perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn1t, her world begins to crumble and shocking secrets are laid bare. Forced to prove what she saw actually happened, everyone begins to question if what occurred was real or imagined. Is it paranoia or did it happen? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one and nothing is what it seems.