Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Nancy Stokes (Emma Thompson) is newly widowed and has been retired for some time as a religious education teacher with a role model function. So it's time to finally devote herself to her own long-cherished and long-hidden desires. The woman in her mid-fifties has only ever had sex in her marriage. She has never had an orgasm. Now Nancy longs for interpersonal closeness and sexual fulfillment. So what could be more obvious than hiring a callboy to make up for what she has missed? Leo Grande (Daryl McCormack) is the name of the young man, who not only turns out to be extremely attractive (as expected), but also an interesting and witty conversationalist. The sympathy is mutual - and not only that: After several meetings and with growing sexual self-confidence, the dynamic shifts and the facades begin to crumble. In this comedy starring the great Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack (“Peaky Blinders”), director Sophie Hyde exposes the repressed sexuality of the British middle class and takes aim at it with wit and charm.