Sophie Hyde’s third feature has found a home stateside following its well-received world premiere out of Sundance. Searchlight Pictures scored U.S. rights to Emma Thompson-starrer “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.” The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the news.
Penned by Katy Brand (“Glued”), the comedy tells the story of Nancy (Thompson), a retired school teacher who hires a sex worker (Daryl McCormack, “The Wheel of Time”) in the hopes of having good sex for the first time in her life.
Asked what she’d like people to think about after watching the film, Hyde told us, “How important pleasure is. How we have been taught to hate our bodies and how much we lose from that. How someone else’s perspective can open things for us that we haven’t previously thought about or understood. That we have great capacity for connection. That desire can lead us to wonderful things.”
“Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” will stream exclusively on Hulu in the U.S.
Last seen in Disney’s live-action “Cruella,” Thompson won an Oscar for her lead role in 1992’s “Howards End,” and another for writing the screenplay for 1995’s “Sense and Sensibility.”
Hyde previously helmed “52 Tuesdays” and “Animals.”
Searchlight also recently nabbed rights to another woman-directed Sundance title, “Fresh,” Mimi Cave’s thriller about the horrors of modern dating. “Normal People’s” Daisy Edgar-Jones stars.
Sundance, which is once again digital this year due to COVID-19, kicked off January 20 and runs through January 30.