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A 2022 film, it premiered at UsefulNotes/{{Sundance}}, where it won the Audience award, before being released in June 2022, with Creator/{{Hulu}} releasing it in the US.

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A 2022 film, it premiered at UsefulNotes/{{Sundance}}, Platform/{{Sundance}}, where it won the Audience award, before being released in June 2022, with Creator/{{Hulu}} releasing it in the US.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: After a satisfying but non-orgasmic encounter with Leo at the end of the movie, Nancy is driven to take matters into her own hands. This is how she finally gets her orgasm.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Leo is a genuinely kind, charming, and interesting person.

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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Leo is a genuinely kind, charming, and interesting person. Justified in that, as he admits, apart from getting "slapped around" a little bit and called names, he's a man and so is less liable to get the abuse that female sex workers tend to get, and most of his clients are nice to him.
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* FemaleGaze: The thing that eventually arouses Nancy to the point of orgasm is not having sex with Leo, but watching him as he hunts through her hotel room for a sex toy while he happens to be naked.

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* BerserkButton: Leo has a lot of patience, but Nancy both cyberstalking him ''and'' continuing to push his buttons about his relationship with his mother finally causes him to snap and rage at her.



* WellDoneSonGuy: Nancy's complicated relationship with her children, and Leo's complicated relationship with his mother, is a theme throughout the movie. Nancy resents her children for being freer, happier and less inhibited than she is; Leo resents his mother for being unable to cope with his sexuality and [[IHaveNoSon consequently disowning him]].

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* WellDoneSonGuy: Nancy's complicated relationship with her children, and Leo's complicated relationship with his mother, is a theme throughout the movie. Nancy resents her children for being freer, happier and less inhibited than she is; Leo resents his mother for being unable to cope with his sexuality and [[IHaveNoSon consequently disowning him]].him]].
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* BerserkButton: Leo has a lot of patience, but Nancy both cyberstalking him ''and'' continuing to push his buttons about his relationship with his mother finally causes him to snap and rage at her.



* LoopholeAbuse: As prostitution was technically illegal in the UK during the period the film is set, Leo technically only provides his "company and conversation" to his clients. Whether or not they have sex is entirely their own business. In practice however, he is very much a sex worker.



* MrFanservice: Leo is a very handsome, muscular young dude who spends most of the movie in various states of undress.

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* MrFanservice: Leo is a very handsome, muscular young dude who spends most of the movie in various states of undress. Leo himself takes deliberate steps to invoke this, working very hard to keep his physique, saying that his clients appreciate it.



* PlatonicProstitution: Discussed. Leo has clients who pay him for this.

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* PlatonicProstitution: Discussed. Leo has clients who pay him for this.this, and ''legally speaking'' this is his actual profession.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Nancy reveals that, through cyberstalking, she has learned Leo's real name, he promptly starts getting dressed to leave, as she has crossed his explicitly stated boundaries.

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''Good Luck To You, Leo Grande'' is about a repressed religion teacher, Nancy Stokes (Creator/EmmaThompson), who has never had an orgasm. She hires a young sex worker, Leo (Daryl [=McCormack=]) in an effort to change that.

A 2022 film, it premiered at UsefulNotes/{{Sundance}}, where it won the Audience award, before being released in June 2022.

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''Good Luck To You, Leo Grande'' is about 2022 Sex Comedy-Drama, directed by Creator/SophieHyde, and starring Creator/EmmaThompson and Daryl [=McCormack=].

Taking place in a hotel room over several encounters, the film tells the story of
a repressed religion teacher, Nancy Stokes (Creator/EmmaThompson), (Thompson), who has never had an orgasm. She hires a young sex worker, Leo (Daryl [=McCormack=]) in an effort to change that.

A 2022 film, it premiered at UsefulNotes/{{Sundance}}, where it won the Audience award, before being released in June 2022.2022, with Creator/{{Hulu}} releasing it in the US.

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''Good Luck To You, Leo Grande'' is about a repressed religion teacher, Nancy Stokes (Creator/EmmaThompson), who has never had an orgasm. She meets with a young sex worker, Leo (Daryl [=McCormack=]) in an effort to change that.

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''Good Luck To You, Leo Grande'' is about a repressed religion teacher, Nancy Stokes (Creator/EmmaThompson), who has never had an orgasm. She meets with hires a young sex worker, Leo (Daryl [=McCormack=]) in an effort to change that.



* BottleEpisode: The movie is set in a hotel room, aside from the penultimate scene, which shows Nancy and Leo meeting in the hotel's restaurant.

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* {{Anorgasmia}}: Nancy's lifelong lack of orgasm serves not only as her CharacterArc but a microcosm of the character as a whole.
* BottleEpisode: The movie is set in a hotel room, aside from the penultimate scene, which shows Nancy and Leo meeting in the hotel's restaurant. restaurant.
* ChekhovsGun: basically the first thing we learn about Nancy is that she has never had an orgasm and is not expecting to ever have one.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: After a satisfying but non-orgasmic encounter with Leo at the end of the movie, Nancy is driven to take matters into her own hands. This is how she finally gets her orgasm.
* HollywoodSex: Strongly averted. The complexities, nuances and idiosyncracies of sex are discussed and to a certain extent even deconstructed.



* MinimalistCast: There are two main characters, Nancy and Leo, and a third character - a waitress at the restaurant - shows up for a couple of lines.
* MrFanservice: Leo is a very handsome, muscular young dude who spends most of the movie in various states of undress.

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* MinimalistCast: There are two main characters, Nancy and Leo, and a third character - a waitress at Leo. The only other speaking roles are the restaurant - shows up for a couple of lines.
waitresses in the penultimate scene.
* MrFanservice: Leo is a very handsome, muscular young dude who spends most of the movie in various states of undress. undress.
* OldPeopleAreNonsexual: {{zigzagged}}. Nancy has children Leo's age and has had an extremely limited -- and largely dissatisfying -- sex life with only one person. She hires Leo precisely to ''avert'' the trope; her problem is in getting up the gumption to actually go through with it.
* PlatonicProstitution: Discussed. Leo has clients who pay him for this.



* SlutShaming: Nancy admits to having been a prude as a teacher and criticized and insulted her female students for their sexuality. She says that she was wrong and apologizes to a former student.

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* SlutShaming: Nancy admits to having been a prude as a teacher and criticized and insulted her female students for their sexuality. She says that she was wrong and apologizes to a former student.student.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Nancy's complicated relationship with her children, and Leo's complicated relationship with his mother, is a theme throughout the movie. Nancy resents her children for being freer, happier and less inhibited than she is; Leo resents his mother for being unable to cope with his sexuality and [[IHaveNoSon consequently disowning him]].
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* SexAsARiteOfPassage: Leo is only the second person Nancy has ever had sex with, and it's not just sex, but seeking to have an orgasm, that she considers a rite of passage.
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* SlutShaming: Nancy admits to having been a prude as a teacher and criticized and insulted her female students for their sexuality. She says that she was wrong.

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* SlutShaming: Nancy admits to having been a prude as a teacher and criticized and insulted her female students for their sexuality. She says that she was wrong.wrong and apologizes to a former student.

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* BottleEpisode: The movie is set in a hotel room, aside from the penultimate scene, which shows Nancy and Leo meeting in the hotel's restaurant.



* SexIsGood: The message of the movie, and specifically what Nancy learns from meeting Leo.

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* MinimalistCast: There are two main characters, Nancy and Leo, and a third character - a waitress at the restaurant - shows up for a couple of lines.
* MrFanservice: Leo is a very handsome, muscular young dude who spends most of the movie in various states of undress.
* SexIsGood: The message of the movie, and specifically what Nancy learns from meeting Leo.Leo.
* SlutShaming: Nancy admits to having been a prude as a teacher and criticized and insulted her female students for their sexuality. She says that she was wrong.
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''Good Luck To You, Leo Grande'' is about a repressed religion teacher, Nancy Stokes (Creator/EmmaThompson), who has never had an orgasm. She meets with a young sex worker, Leo (Daryl [=McCormack=) in an effort to change that.

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''Good Luck To You, Leo Grande'' is about a repressed religion teacher, Nancy Stokes (Creator/EmmaThompson), who has never had an orgasm. She meets with a young sex worker, Leo (Daryl [=McCormack=) [=McCormack=]) in an effort to change that.
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A 2022 film, it premiered at UsefulNotes/{{Sundance}}, where it won the Audience award, before being released in June 2022.

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A 2022 film, it premiered at UsefulNotes/{{Sundance}}, where it won the Audience award, before before being released in June 2022.
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''Good Luck To You, Leo Grande'' is about a repressed religion teacher, Nancy Stokes (Creator/EmmaThompson), who has never had an orgasm. She meets with a young sex worker, Leo (Daryl [=McCormack=) in an effort to change that.

A 2022 film, it premiered at UsefulNotes/{{Sundance}}, where it won the Audience award, before being released in June 2022.

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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Leo is a genuinely kind, charming, and interesting person.
* SexIsGood: The message of the movie, and specifically what Nancy learns from meeting Leo.

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