Goodbye June (2025)
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- Synopsis:
- It's nearly 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-witted mother June orchestrates her decline on her own terms - with biting humor, blunt honesty and a lot of love.
- Actors:
- Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Toni Collette, Timothy Spall, Andrea Riseborough, Stephen Merchant, Johnny Flynn, Jeremy Swift, Raza Jaffrey, Fisayo Akinade, James Dryden, Dan Li, Flora Jacoby Richardson, Nancy Hannan, James Trevelyan Buckle, Michelle Parker
- Directors:
- Kate Winslet
- Producers:
- Kate Solomon, Kate Winslet
- Writers:
- Joe Mendes
- Genres:
- Drama
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Reviews (1) of Goodbye June
Grief, Gloss and a Family Template - Goodbye June review by griggs
The title sounds like a breezy morning in the garden, not a film about death and the mess it leaves behind. And for a while it looks that way: glossy, tasteful, softly lit — like a well known department store advert that won’t end.
Goodbye June does get one thing right: grief has no handbook, and people cope in clashing ways. Early on, the humour in the admin and awkward rituals lands because it feels observed. Then the film leans harder on melodrama, and the siblings start to read like roles: the career high-flyer, the resentful younger one, the airy absentee, the youngest stuck in adolescence. You can sense the family-gathering template of A Christmas Tale, but without the same prickly specificity.
Kate Winslet directs with real confidence. I just wish the script gave the cast more room. Tim Spall and Johnny Flynn have the most interesting father–son thread, and it’s rationed into brief set-pieces.