To Leslie

* * * * 2022 Rating: M Mature themes coarse language and drug use 120 mins USABCDF Pictures

Inspired by true events. A West Texas single mother (2023 Academy Awards nominee Andrea Riseborough) wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later with her charm running out and nowhere to go she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.

Andrea Riseborough (Possessor) Stephen Root (Office Space) and Oscar-winner Allison Janney star in this feature debut from Emmy-nominated director Michael Morris (Better Call Saul). Inspired by true events the story follows a West Texas single mother who wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later with her charm running out and nowhere to go she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.

Release date: 9 March 2023 (Australia)

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Review

Review by Leigh Paatsch - Herald Sun

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7.1 IMDB
95% TOMATOMETER
85% AUDIENCE SCORE

When we first lay eyes on her, Leslie (Andrea Riseborough) is not just down and out. She is well and truly done. Six years earlier, a six-figure lottery win had handed Leslie a ticket out of small-town oblivion. Instead of doing the right thing and buying a house that she and her teenage son could live in, Leslie made every wrong move imaginable.

Now, having partied and drank away every last cent in her bank account, Leslie is left with nothing but a small suitcase holding all of her worldly possessions, and a big, bad bomb of self-destruction ready to explode inside her head at any moment.

Will this barely functioning alcoholic wipe herself out once and for all, or will she find a way back into the world she left behind?

Thanks to an extraordinarily compelling and authentic performance from Riseborough, this tough, no-nonsense drama will be keeping viewers awaiting the correct answer for an unbearable period of time.

Make no mistake: this is a fearless, worrying work of highwire acting that thoroughly deserves the Best Actress Oscar nomination that came its way (even if the well-meaning intercession of Riseborough's celebrity supporters rubbed some folk the wrong way).