Overview

• I Swear, adapted from John Davidson’s 2025 memoir, opened in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, 10 October.
• Robert Aramayo plays Davidson, with at least one review praising his charismatic, physically precise performance.
• Davidson, a Tourette’s campaigner awarded an MBE, is an executive producer as director Kirk Jones positions the film to counter cheap laughs.
• NHS England estimates more than 300,000 people in Britain have Tourette’s, with coprolalia affecting about one in ten yet often overrepresented on screen.
• New treatment research is ongoing, with the University of Nottingham’s Neupulse wristband reported as awaiting full medical approval.