Synopsis

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe (23 years her junior) brace themselves for their twins to graduate from high school. When Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry comes to spend time with the family to better understand Gracie, who she will be playing in a film, family dynamics unravel under the pressue of the outside gaze. Joe, never having processed what happened in his youth, starts to confront the reality of life as an empty-nester at 36. And as Elizabeth and Gracie study eac other, the similarities and differences between the two women begin to ebb and flow. Set in the pituresque and comfortable Camden, ME, May December is an exploration of truth, storytelling and the difficulties (or impossibility) of fully understanding another person.

Genre

Drama

Director

Todd Haynes

Starring

Natalie Portman

Julianne Moore

Production Company

Killer Films

Gloria Sanchez Productions

MountainA

Project Infinity

Taylor & Dodge

Writer

Samy Burch