Overview

• The Sundance Audience Award winner began a wide U.S. theatrical run on September 5 via Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate.
• Writer-director James Sweeney criticized those circulating an explicit scene online, calling them “perverts” and describing the leak as an invasion of privacy and bodily autonomy.
• The footage surfaced after the January festival premiere as part of a broader piracy leak, which the filmmakers say distorted the intended context of the scene.
• Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions holds international rights, with release dates still unannounced and a London Film Festival screening planned.
• Critics are praising the black-comedy psychological drama, singling out Dylan O’Brien’s dual turn, which he has described as the most revealing work of his career.