A West Texas lottery winner squanders the money and years that followed it, then has to ask the people she hurt whether there is any room left for her.
What is To Leslie about?
"To Leslie" picks up long after the headlines about its title character have faded. She once won a small fortune, and the film is less interested in that windfall than in what came after it: a spiral that cost her a home, a marriage, and her son's trust. Broke and unwelcome in the only town that ever knew her name, Leslie drifts toward a motel job and a manager willing to give her one more chance than she has earned. The story is built around small, uneasy reunions rather than a single confrontation, tracking whether sobriety and an apology can outrun a reputation. Andrea Riseborough anchors the film as Leslie, with Marc Maron, Andre Royo, and Owen Teague playing the people orbiting her recovery from skepticism, weariness, and cautious hope.
About the cast
Andrea Riseborough leads as Leslie opposite Marc Maron and Andre Royo, with Owen Teague, Stephen Root, James Landry Hébert, Matt Lauria, and Catfish Jean rounding out a small-town ensemble under Michael Morris's direction. The cast favors restraint over showiness, letting a modest budget and an intimate setting carry a story about second chances that are offered reluctantly, if at all.
Context & significance
Michael Morris directed this 2022 American drama, shot through with the particular loneliness of small West Texas towns where everyone already knows the worst thing you ever did. The film sits in a lineage of addiction dramas that resist tidy redemption arcs, choosing instead to show sobriety as a series of small, reversible decisions rather than a single triumphant turn.
Watching To Leslie on Ktime
K-Time streams "To Leslie" with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow every quiet exchange between Leslie and the people she is trying to win back. The page is free to browse; watching the film itself just needs a K-Time account login, inside an interface built around the Farsi-speaking audience.