Wicked Little Letters

After playing the same character at different ages in the Oscar®-nominated “The Lost Daughter,” Jessie Buckley (Chernobyl) and Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”) reunite in this cheeky seaside dark comedy about an independent single mother accused of sending nasty, curse-filled correspondence to a local, religiously-minded spinster.A dastardly scandal is sweeping the small town of Littlehampton, and its victim? The overtly pious, disgustingly condescending Miss Edith Swan. As a recent recipient of a number of letters full of unspeakable profanity and disgraceful obscenities, Edith begins to build her case against her rowdy Irish neighbor, Rose Gooding. While the bumbling cops are easily persuaded that Rose is the author of these “poison pen missives,” Littlehampton’s lone woman officer, Gladys Moss, isn’t convinced. Joined by fellow townswomen, Officer Moss begins a covert investigation to sleuth out the shocking truth of who’s behind these offensive—albeit hilarious—personal writings. Inspired by the unbelievable true story that swept 1920s England, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS hand-delivers rollicking laughs and jaw-dropping revelations through a nearly forgotten story in British history. —A.B.