Overview
- The drama follows four adult siblings and their father gathering before Christmas as their mother enters palliative care, balancing humor with grief.
- Helen Mirren portrays the terminally ill matriarch after setting aside a personal rule against playing dying characters.
- Joe Anders began the script at 19 as a film school assignment, drawing on the illness and death of his grandmother.
- Winslet developed the script with Anders, then chose to produce, star in, and direct the feature after deciding she could not hand it to another filmmaker.
- The film arrives on Netflix after a limited theatrical run, with early notices praising performances and noting uneven writing and debut direction, including a 2.5 out of 4 review from the Marin Independent Journal.