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Romance, Drama  •  2022  •  97 min  •  Adults (18+)

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande poster

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.8

Overview

Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.

Starring Cast

Emma Thompson  •   Daryl McCormack  •   Isabella Laughland

Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Progressive

Primary

Political: Strong Left
Confidence: High

The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideologies such as female sexual liberation, body positivity, and the destigmatization of sex work, directly challenging traditional societal norms regarding women's sexuality and aging.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High

The film features visible diversity in its central casting with a Black male lead. Its narrative focuses on an older white woman's journey of self-discovery and sexual liberation, subtly critiquing societal norms related to body image and aging without negatively portraying traditional identities.

Secondary

LGBTQ: Positive
Confidence: Medium

The film offers a positive portrayal by championing sexual liberation, body positivity, and challenging shame around sex. It depicts Leo Grande, a character in a non-normative sexual role, with dignity and agency, fostering an empathetic and respectful view of diverse sexual experiences and identities.

Christianity: Negative
Confidence: Medium

The film portrays the restrictive, sex-negative aspects of a conservative Christian upbringing as a source of lifelong guilt, shame, and unfulfillment for the protagonist, Nancy. Her journey is largely about overcoming these ingrained beliefs to achieve personal liberation and self-acceptance.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: High

The film 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative centers on a cisgender woman's journey of sexual discovery with a cisgender male sex worker, making the portrayal of transsexual identity N/A.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is an original film with characters created specifically for this production. There is no prior source material, historical record, or previous installment from which characters could have been gender-swapped.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: High

This film features original characters created for the movie, Nancy Stokes and Leo Grande. There is no prior source material, historical record, or previous installment establishing a canonical race for these characters to be changed from.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.8

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.2
The Movie Database logo
7.0

Critic Ratings

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9.3
Metacritic logo
7.8

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