Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Oscar winner Emma Thompson stars as a repressed widow who hires a sex worker to help her discover what all the fuss over orgasms is about in director Sophie Hyde’s dramedy.

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Oscar winner Emma Thompson stars as a repressed widow who hires a sex worker to help her discover what all the fuss over orgasms is about in director Sophie Hyde’s dramedy.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is a didactically affirming, immensely likable British serio-comedy, which is more issue- than character-driven.
The tale features Emma Thompson as a prim, widowed, high-school religious studies teacher who hires Daryl McCormack’s sex worker for a date, hoping to have an orgasm for the first time ever.
This sensitively performed two-hander, written by British comedian Katy Brand and directed by Australian Sophie Hyde (Animals, 52 Tuesdays), presents a sex-positive portrait of a client-escort relationship, but with a female customer for a change.
Although older female viewers would seem to be the film’s obvious target, other demographics should also find it interesting.