Overview
- The James Gray–directed crime drama is set for a competition premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, with Neon handling North American release.
- Johansson says working with Gray felt loose and playful, calling the experience “such a joy” with room to explore scenes.
- She plays Hester Pearl, a stay-at-home mother pushing for more in her life, a role she links to how many women sideline personal dreams for family.
- The film teams Johansson with Adam Driver and Miles Teller and unfolds in late-1980s New York as a brother’s arrival pulls the family toward danger with the Russian mafia.
- Johansson says she signed on after the script won her over, describing it as a big story told inside a small, intimate one.