May December

May December is a 2023 American black comedy-drama film directed by Todd Haynes from a screenplay by Samy Burch, based on a story by Burch and Alex Mechanik. It follows an actress (Natalie Portman) who travels to Georgia to meet and study the life of the controversial woman (Julianne Moore) she is set to play in a film. It is loosely inspired by the story of Mary Kay Letourneau. May December premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2023. It is scheduled to be released in select theaters in the United States on November 17, 2023, before streaming on Netflix on December 1, 2023. Premise Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple with a large age gap buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past. Cast Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry Julianne Moore as Gracie Atherton-Yoo Charles Melton as Joe Yoo D. W. Moffett as Tom Piper Curda as Honor Elizabeth Yu as Mary Gabriel Chung as Charlie Cory Michael Smith Lawrence Arancio