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Crisis at Christmas

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December 20, 2025

A touching family drama starring Dame Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet

Two of the UK's biggest stars Kate Winslet and Dame Helen Mirren - join forces for a bittersweet movie about four adult siblings who must face up to the imminent death of their terminally ill mother.

Winslet plays Julia, who, with her siblings Helen (Toni Collette), Molly (Andrea Riseborough) and Connor (Johnny Flynn), and their father Bernie (Timothy Spall), are thrown together when matriarch June (Mirren) becomes ill in the run-up to Christmas. As the siblings, and their young children, come together in a hospital room, past grievances and resentments rear their head.

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