Kate Winslet is due a very thoughtful Christmas gift this year. The veteran actor made a pretty extraordinary maternal gesture, directing, producing and starring in a film her son, Joe Anders, wrote, Goodbye June , which is in limited release this weekend and streaming on Netflix Dec. 24.

While it might be worth pointing out that the script originated in a screenwriting class, there will be no nepo baby jokes here. Put alongside most of the Christmas offerings on Netflix, which seem to veer more toward the secret princess/fantasy/romance side of things, and aren’t even attempting to be, well, very good, Goodbye June is an admirably solid, if generic, drama about family and death with a very distinguished cast.

Terminal illness, estranged adult siblings and hospital rooms are certainl

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