We have another indie trailer for you, Sessions. It’s a British crime drama about how a couple of drinks can ruin everything.
I wasn’t expecting much, but Sessions looks solid. The rest is from the press release.
Richie’s life looks picture-perfect: a new wife, a baby on the way, and a loyal best friend who always knows how to turn up the volume. But beneath the surface, Richie is silently drowning. Terrified by the pressures of impending fatherhood and financial strain, he hides his crippling anxiety behind a mask of lad culture, fuelling himself with cocaine, whiskey, and denial. When his charismatic best friend Steve (Jonas Armstrong) drags him into a high-stakes property deal with a corrupt developer (Leo Gregory), Richie sees one last shot at fixing his life and proving his worth as a man.
What starts as a quick score turns into a waking nightmare. As the deal unravels, Richie loses his job, his marriage, and his grip on reality. Hunted by a creditor (Rupert Graves)and haunted by his own mind, he spirals through a haze of drugs and paranoia, desperate to hold onto the one person he thinks he can trust. Sessions is a visceral psychological thriller that unmasks the silent epidemic of the male mental health crisis, exploring the devastating cost of toxic enabling, the trauma of unspoken grief, and the urgent, life-saving need for men to finally ask for help.
Helmed by director Giles Alderson (Food for Thought, The Dare), Sessions captures the silent weight of mental health struggles and the tragic epidemic of men taking their own lives, while offering a glimmer of hope for change.
The star-studded cast includes Daniel O’Reilly, Jonas Armstrong (The Bay), Bill Fellows (Ted Lasso), Jaime Winstone (Sumotherhood), Leo Gregory (Green Street), Preeya Kalidas (Four Lions), Percelle Ascott (Doctor Who) and Rupert Graves (Sherlock).
Sessions will be on digital on 27th November. I have a screener and will report back.
