Kinds of Kindness: Release date and where to watch in Australia


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Just months after the worldwide success of Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos returns this year with another Emma Stone-starrer, Kinds of Kindness

Gloriously packed with big stars like Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, and Joe Alwyn, Kinds of Kindness is an absurdist black comedy anthology film featuring three stories about the bizarre and absurd components of human nature.

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Kinds of Kindness release date in Australia

Kinds of Kindness will premiere in Australian cinemas on Thursday, 11 July. It originally debuted on 21 June in the US and 28 June in the UK.

The film initially had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 17 May. 

MovieRelease DateRun Time
Kinds of KindnessThur, 11 Jul 20242h 45m

Where is Kinds of Kindness streaming after?

With Searchlight Pictures (a subsidiary of Walt Disney) as international distributor, the new film will be streaming in Australia via Disney+ after its theatrical run. 

However, it will be released on digital platforms first (Apple TV, Google Play, etc.) before arriving on Disney Plus, following in the footsteps of other Searchlight titles. 

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What is Kinds of Kindness about?

Described as a “triptych fable”, the black comedy film follows a man who attempts to take control of his own life, to outrageous results; a policeman whose wife vanished only to return seemingly more peculiar; and a woman in a cult searching for someone with the ability to revive the dead. Yup, all three stories are bleak, bizarre, and absolutely hilarious. 

The anthology film is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, who co-wrote the screenplay with Efthimis Filippou. The director also produced the movie with Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, and Kasia Malipan. Kinds of Kindness marks Emma Stone and Lanthimos’ fourth collaboration after working together in The Favourite, Poor Things, and the short film “Bleat”. 

Kinds of Kindness trailer

Check out the film’s promo trailer (or Emma Stone dancing, really) below.

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Cast of Kinds of Kindness 

Apart from Emma Stone, most of the cast members have already worked with Yorgos Lanthimos in the past, including Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley in Poor Things and Joe Alwyn in The Favourite

You can find the complete cast of Kinds of Kindness right here, each playing multiple characters throughout the film’s anthology structure. 

  • Emma Stone as Rita, Liz, and Emily
  • Jesse Plemons as Robert, Daniel, and Andrew
  • Willem Dafoe as Raymond, George, and Omi
  • Margaret Qualley as Martha, Vivian, Ruth, and Rebecca
  • Hong Chau as Sarah, Sharon, and Omi’s wife
  • Joe Alwyn as Joseph
  • Mamoudou Athie as Will and Neil
  • Hunter Schafer as Anna 
  • Yorgos Stefanakos as R.M.F.
  • Merah Benoit as Emily’s daughter 
  • Krystal Alayne Chambers as Susan

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