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Kate Winslet directs her son Joe Anders' script about a dying matriarch, highlighting grief and reconciliation with a star-studded cast on Netflix, streaming Dec 24, 2025.
- On Wednesday, Dec. 24, Netflix will stream Goodbye June, the film about June, an ailing matriarch, marking Kate Winslet's directorial debut.
- Having read her son's script, Kate Winslet opted to direct Joe Anders' first screenplay inspired by her mother's 2017 death and appointed newcomers Ben Harlan, Alison Harvey, and Grace Clark.
- At casting, Winslet held a Netflix-hosted tea party and Soho Hotel meetings, used small microphones to create intimacy, and arranged hands-on meetings with palliative-care nurses.
- The film features a high-profile ensemble cast including Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, Timothy Spall, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough and Kate Winslet, while critics hailed it as `so important` and viewers praised its authentic representation of palliative-care workers.
- After a limited theatrical run on December 12, the film’s Christmas setting and themes may resonate with audiences dealing with grief as a holiday alternative.
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The Oscar winner also stars in the movie alongside Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough, Toni Collette, Timothy Spall, and Johnny Flynn.Kimberley French / Netflix Kate Winslet directing on the set of 'Goodbye June'Kate Winslet knows you may cry by the end of her new movie, Goodbye June, but she promises that wasn't her intent."The goal was to make a story that felt so real that people might hopefully be able to see something of themselves in these c…
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Goodbye June is out now on Netflix! The movie, which is Kate Winslet‘s directorial debut with a script written by her 22-year-old son Joe Anders, just hit the streamer on Christmas Eve (December 24). The film takes place just before 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. But their quick-w…
Kate Winslet is known for numerous films, such as the epic Titanic (1997) or her appearances in Avatar, but now debuts behind the cameras, and does so by directing a story written by her son Joe Anders. Goodbye, June (Goodbye June), which premieres today on Netflix, is a Christmas drama about a family that meets when the matriarch, played by Helen Mirren, is in her last days by a terminal illness. Winslet plays the family's organized daughter, w…
The subject is hard and yet. At two weeks of Christmas, June is sick. The cancer against which she has been fighting for three years has spread. Here she is in the hospital. Her husband, her son and her three daughters find themselves in turn at her bedside and are led to overcome the hurdles that have kept them far away for years... For her first film as a director, and in which she plays, Kate Winslet, currently on the poster "Avatar 3", manag…
This December 24th, Netflix unveils the first film as a director of the English star, on a scenario of her son. It is a kind family drama, fortunately carried by a solid casting, including a great Helen Mirren. ...
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