Kate Winslet to make her feature directorial debut with Goodbye June

Kate Winslet will make her feature film directorial debut this December with Goodbye June, a holiday family drama written by her son Joe Anders that opens in select U.S. and U.K. theaters on Dec. 12 and begins streaming on Netflix on Dec. 24. The film follows four adult siblings and their father as their mother’s worsening health forces the family to confront messy relationships and mortality during the Christmas season.

Goodbye June is billed as a darkly humorous and candid portrait of a family in crisis. An official synopsis says the matriarch, June, elects to "orchestrate her decline on her own terms" with biting humor and blunt honesty, drawing her children together even as they grapple with potential loss. Promotional images released ahead of the premiere give a first look at Winslet and Toni Collette in a scene from the film.

The ensemble cast includes Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, Helen Mirren, Stephen Merchant, Fisayo Akinade, Jeremy Swift and Raza Jaffrey. Reports differ on casting of the title role. Several outlets and promotional posts identify Helen Mirren as June and Winslet as Julia, one of June’s children, while at least one early...