
Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.
- 6.5
- 2024
- Released
- 1h 37m

Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Pansy
Michele Austin
Chantelle
David Webber
Curtley
Tuwaine Barrett
Moses
Ani Nelson
Kayla
Sophia Brown
Aleisha
Jonathan Livingstone
Virgil
Jo Martin
Nurse Salon Client
Llewella Gideon
Smoking Salon Client
Yvette Boakye
Salon Client
Chinenye Ezeudu
Salon Client
Elliot Edusah
Sofa Couple (Daniel)
Tiwa Lade
Sofa Couple (Savannah)
Alice Bailey Johnson
Furniture Assistant
Gary Beadle
Irate Motorist
Diveen Henry
Supermarket Customer
Bryony Miller
Supermarket Customer
Ashna Rabheru
Cashier
Samantha Spiro
Nicole
Syrus Lowe
Kayla’s Colleague
Naana Agyei-Ampadu
Aleisha’s Supervisor
Ruby Bentall
Doctor
Hiral Varsani
Dentist
Khali Best
Street Boy
Jyuddah Jaymes
Street Boy
Donna Banya
Moses’s New Friend

























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Reviews
I love how angry this lady is. She's so smart. Every day she'd cut me to pieces; asking me why my chihuahua is wearing clothes. Great emotion. Tension. How is that house so fucking organized? Box it up. She's better than Culkin. A much more real pain. A much tighter run time. It is the best sad film.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste turns in a splendid performance here as the troubled "Pansy". She's married to "Curtley" (David Webber) and mother to "Moses" (Tiwaine Barrett) but suffice to say she's not an happy woman. Her glass is most definitely half empty as she delivers monologue after monologue of depressing observations about the decline of society as she picks a fight with just about everyone and

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As many of us can attest, the strains of daily living and the ghosts of our past can take their toll on us in myriad ways, leaving us frazzled, frustrated, depressed and perpetually angry. We may not like the emergence of those outcomes, as they can effectively isolate us from others, including those we’re thought to care most about. But those conditions can become so overwhelming that we can’t co











