Comedy, Drama, Mystery

WICKED LITTLE LETTERS

2024
1 HR, 42 min
APR 5 → APR 18

Details

Released March 29, 2024, United Kingdom

Comedy, Drama, Mystery

1 hour, 42 minutes

Sony Pictures Classics

None

Starring

Olivia Colman
Jessie Buckley
Anjana Vasan
Timothy Spall
Hugh Skinner

Director

Thea Sharrock

Film Information

A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbors: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women — led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) — begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.

Full Cast

Olivia Colman

Jessie Buckley

Anjana Vasan

Timothy Spall

Hugh Skinner

Additional Credits

Thea Sharrock Director

Reviews

“The camera looks up to Colman and Buckley in adulation, often allowing their features to seize the entire frame. Here’s a film that understands perfectly well that the two of them are all we need to enjoy ourselves.”

Clarisse Loughrey

Independent (UK)

“In Sharrock’s hands, Wicked Little Letters is an entertaining account of what feels like a primitive form of today’s online flame wars, where people take sides as commenters openly disparage one another.”

Peter Debruge

Variety

“The Oscar winner and Oscar nominee, respectively, play warring neighbors in a tiny English village in the 1920s, and there is a glorious gusto to their very funny performances.”

Esther Zuckerman

Vanity Fair