Sophie Hyde’s highly unorthodox family portrait pays homage to her dad, who died before her trans child could appreciate his pioneering personality.

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‘Jimpa’ Review: A Liberated John Lithgow Sets the Tone for an Unkempt Homage to Tradition-Defying Kin

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EXCLUSIVE: Sundance prize-winning filmmaker Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays, Animals, Good Luck to You Leo Grand) says casting “a version of yourself” is not an easy task. 
	“It’s very tricky to do,” says Hyde, director of Jimpa, which is premiering today at Park City’s Eccles. It’s a film that sublimely explores what constitutes the makeup of family in our era. 
	From the get-go, though, Hyde knew that Oscar-winning Olivia Colman would be perfect to p…

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Breaking Baz: Filmmaker Sophie Hyde Says It Wasn’t Easy Casting Olivia Colman To Play Her In Hot Sundance Movie ‘Jimpa’

Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in Sophie Hyde's 'Jimpa,' about a filmmaker navigating cross currents between her nonbinary teenager and her gay father.

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‘Jimpa’ Review: Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in a Well-Intentioned but Numbingly Earnest Inter-Generational Queer Family Drama

Sundance: Colman plays a filmmaker struggling to reconcile her resentment toward her gay father in Sophie Hyde's thinly rendered portrait of generational divides.

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‘Jimpa’ Review: Olivia Colman and John Lithgow Star in a Muddled LGBT Family Drama

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival just days after Trump clarified his Make America Great Again agenda, Sophie Hyde’s “Jimpa” is a film about progress, not going back. Inspired by lessons of living with an activist gay father (John Lithgow’s richest role since “The World According to Garp”) and a nonbinary child (Aud Mason-Hyde), the semi-autobiographical drama captures — and celebrates — the ripple effects …

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Following the immensely crowd-pleasing Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde returns to Sundance Film Festival with Jimpa, an ambitious, deeply personal story based on her own family. It crams a lot of biographical details – a gay man coming out to his wife and kids, surviving the AIDS crisis, having a…

‘Jimpa’ Review: A Liberated John Lithgow Sets the Tone for an Unkempt Homage to Tradition-Defying Kin

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