Wicked Little Letters

2024 Comedy
78%

A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, the film follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding. When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women - led by Police Officer Gladys Moss - begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.

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by Brian Lloyd
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'Wicked Little Letters' makes wit out of witless profanity

In twenties England, the town of Littlehampton is rocked by a mystery unlike any other at the time - the people are receiving poison-pen letters filled with profanities. Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) appears to be the main target, and her father Edward (Timothy Spall) suspects it to be their next-door neighbour Rose (Jessie Buckley), an Irish immigrant who is at risk of losing custody of her daughter (Alisha Weir) due to the accusations...

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