Netflix has unveiled the release date for the upcoming British drama Goodbye June, along with some first-look images.
The film, which marks Kate Winslet’s feature directorial debut, will land in select UK cinemas on 12 December, followed by its streaming release on Netflix on 24 December.
With an all-star cast including Timothy Spall, Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren, Stephen Merchant and Winslet herself, the Christmas-set drama follows the trials of a dysfunctional family in the UK.
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“It’s nearly Christmas when an unexpected turn in their mother’s health thrusts four adult siblings, and their exasperating father, into chaos as they navigate messy family dynamics in the face of potential loss,” reads the official logline.
“But their quick-witted mother, June, orchestrates her decline on her own terms – with biting humour, blunt honesty, and a lot of love.”
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The film was written by Winslet’s son Joe Anders, with the pair recently working together on projects such as I Am Ruth and Lee.
The Oscar-winning actor is also producing the film, following her first experience in the role with Lee. Last year, Winslet opened up to Digital Spy about this “completely different job”.
“An executive producer is often a person who might find the project in the first place and hand it on to somebody else. It might be somebody who comes on as a part financier. It might be somebody who lends production office space,” she explained.
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“It can have any kind of form, that role. But being a producer,” Winslet continued, “is a person who sees it right from the beginning, the nuts and bolts, the details, the cash flow, the crew, the locations…
“Everything right to the end of delivering the film. So that is a completely different job, and that is what I did on Lee for the first time in my life.”
Goodbye June will release in select UK cinemas on 12 December, and on Netflix on 24 December.
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Mireia (she/her) has been working as a movie and TV journalist for over eight years. Based in the UK, she is a former deputy movies editor at Digital Spy, and previously worked for the Spanish magazine Fotogramas. Mireia’s work has been published in other outlets such as Esquire and Elle in Spain, and WeLoveCinema and GamesRadar+ in the UK. She is also a published author, having written the essay Biblioteca Studio Ghibli: Nicky, la aprendiz de bruja about Hayao Miyazaki’s Kiki’s Delivery Service.
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