“Best Overlooked Film of 2025" | LILLY stars Academy Award Nominee Patricia Clarkson | Directed by Rachel Feldman | For Your Consideration
LILLY delivers a powerful message for this moment and a gorgeous performance by Patricia Clarkson.
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STARRING
Patricia Clarkson
DIRECTED BY
Rachel Feldman
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Called one of the “Best Overlooked films of 2025” by Variety
Voted “Most Liked” movie on Netflix
WINNER of 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival BEST of the FEST
WINNER of the 2025 Santa Barbara International Film Festival BEST SOCIAL JUSTICE FEATURE
Synopsis:
After learning that she’s being paid significantly less than her male peers, an Alabama tire factory worker courageously fights bullies and bureaucrats through courts and Congress in a successful landmark battle for equal pay.
Based on the life of Lilly Ledbetter, the woman for whom President Obama named his first piece of legislation, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the film also stars multi-award-winning actors John Benjamin Hickey and Thomas Sadoski.
LILLY is the story of an ordinary woman who galvanizes social change at great personal cost through her extraordinary desire for justice.
While LILLY’s narrative is illuminated through the lens of gender discrimination, the film is a roadmap for how to fight against all monolithic systems of oppression. LILLY shows us that the only way to stop tyranny is to stand up to it, truly a movie for the moment.
“As moving as “NORMA RAE” and SILKWOOD.”
- AARP
“The Whistleblower drama for our time.”
- Variety
“Patricia Clarkson is a force of nature in the title role.”
- Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Trailer:
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I wish the director had given Lilly more agency in this film. Just saying... an important topic especially now when so much of women's agency is threatened.