6.8
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Hedda (2025)
Hedda (2025)
Overview
Hedda Gabler finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.
Starring Cast
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Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Gender Swap: Yes
Race Swap: Yes
Viewer Rating
6.8
Overview
Hedda Gabler finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by critiquing systemic power structures, gender oppression, racial intersectionality, and queer struggles, aligning with contemporary US social justice discourse.
This adaptation of 'Hedda' demonstrates significant DEI through its explicit recasting of the traditionally white titular role with a Black actress. The narrative is expected to leverage this casting to provide a strong and central critique of traditional societal structures, framing them through a lens that highlights their oppressive nature.
Secondary
The film adapts a major character, Eilert Lövborg, who was canonically male in Henrik Ibsen's original play, into Eileen Lovborg, portrayed as female on screen. This constitutes a clear gender swap.
Hedda Gabler, the titular character from Ibsen's 1890 play, is canonically a white Norwegian woman. In the 2025 film, the role is portrayed by Tessa Thompson, a Black actress, constituting a race swap.
The film 'Hedda' (2025) is currently unreleased, and there is no public information available concerning its plot or characters that would indicate the presence of LGBTQ+ themes. Therefore, an evaluation of its portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters and themes is not possible at this time.
The film Hedda (2025) explores themes of gender fluidity and queer relationships through its reimagined characters and dynamics. However, the provided information indicates no explicit depiction of transsexual characters or themes related to gender transition or medical transformation, leading to a classification of N/A for transsexual portrayal.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.8
5.6
Critic Ratings
8.9
7.0
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