Words Lee Curtis

It’s Littlehampton, in the 1920s, a quiet, picturesque seaside town where everyone knows everyone and their business. The peace is soon shattered when several townspeople receive obscene letters in the post from an unknown sender. Fingers immediately point at fiery Irish migrant Rose, who now stands charged with the crime. The thing is, Rose swears – quite literally – that it wasn’t her. This prompts the town’s young police officer Gladys Moss to stand up, against the male authority figures at the station, to solve the case and find the real culprit.

Reuniting onscreen after their dual role in The Lost Daughter, Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley star as neighbours Edith Swan and Rose Gooding, two very different women whose tumultuous relationship eventually softens as Rose’s rowdiness brings Edith out of her deeply-conservative shell.

This stranger-than-fiction true story becomes a classically British feature-length comedy, with the letter writer’s unfiltered foul-mouthed freedom from societal standards scandalising the whole town.

Wicked Little Letters features a who’s who of British talent, with a supporting cast that boasts BAFTA-winners Joanna Scanlan and Malachi Kirby, as well as Timothy Spall, Anjana Vasan, Hugh Skinner, Gemma Jones, Lolly Adefope, and Eileen Atkins.

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