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Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Hedda Gabler finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes90%
Metacritic70/100
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
130 audience votes
Key crew
- Nia DaCostaDirector
- Nia DaCostaWriter
- Hildur GuðnadóttirOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Tessa ThompsonHedda Gabler
- Nina HossEileen Lovborg
- Imogen PootsThea Clifton
- Nicholas PinnockJudge Roland Brack
- Tom BatemanGeorge Tesman
- Finbar LynchProfessor Greenwood
- Mirren MackTabitha Greenwood
- Jamael WestmanDavid
- Saffron HockingJane Ji
- Kathryn HunterBertie
- Michelle CraneJoan
- Sam HoareDetective Logan
Stills
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Themes
suicidebased on play or musicalcoerciontragedynewlywed19th centurydepressingcliché