52 Tuesdays

52 Tuesdays (2014)

One day a week, every week for a year

Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and transformation was filmed over the course of a year—once a week, every week, only on Tuesdays.

Date of release
2014-05-01
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (38)
Runtime
1h 54m
Genres
Drama
Director
Sophie Hyde

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 2

52 Tuesdays is a 2013 Australian coming-of-age drama film directed by Sophie Hyde, with the screenplay written by Matthew Cormack and story by Cormack and Hyde. The film centres on a teenage girl dealing with the gender transition of a parent. The film showed at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it was not only nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, but won the Best Director Award. Over the following year it won numerous other awards and garnered global critical acclaim.

Production

52 Tuesdays was filmed in suburban Adelaide over the course of a year, every Tuesday, to fit in with the storyline of the film. This in itself made it unique. It was led by first-time actors and Hyde enjoyed the measure of intimacy and control that she had in the making of the film.

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