Overview

• The drama, starring Robert Aramayo and featuring Maxine Peake and Peter Mullan, debuts in UK and Irish cinemas on 10 October.
• Director Kirk Jones positions the release as a corrective to years of media pursuit of “cheap laughs” at the expense of people with Tourette’s.
• The film underscores that coprolalia affects roughly one in ten people with Tourette’s, countering the common assumption that swearing is typical.
• Davidson, an executive producer on the project, recounts severe childhood tics and damaging side-effects from antipsychotic drugs that shaped his advocacy.
• Research continues on new interventions such as the University of Nottingham’s Neupulse wristband awaiting full approval, and NHS England estimates more than 300,000 people in Britain have Tourette’s.