Perfect

About Perfect

Perfect, is a 2026 American drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Millicent Hailes in her directorial debut. It stars Julia Fox, Ashley Moore, Lío Mehiel, Micaela Wittman, Ryder McLaughlin, Kate Moennig and Creed Bratton.

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Perfect (stylized as PERFECT), is a 2026 American drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Millicent Hailes in her directorial debut. It stars Julia Fox, Ashley Moore, Lío Mehiel, Micaela Wittman, Ryder McLaughlin, Kate Moennig and Creed Bratton.

It had its world premiere at the 2026 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 12, 2026.

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Premise

A wealthy pregnant woman falls in love with a woman starting her life over.

Cast

Julia Fox as Mallory

Ashley Moore as Kai

Lío Mehiel

Micaela Wittman

Ryder McLaughlin

Kate Moennig

Creed Bratton

Production

In August 2024, it was announced Julia Fox, Ashley Moore, Micaela Wittman, and Lío Mehiel had joined the cast of the film, with Millicent Hailes directing from her screenplay co-written with Kendra A. Miller. Principal photography commenced in September. During production, Perfect was unionized with IATSE.

Release

It had its world premiere at the 2026 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 12, 2026.

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Notable quotes

“Even in our poor old country, with its aristocratic class materialized, its middle class vulgarized, its lower class brutalized, there are to be found individuals, as I have again and again said, lovers of the humane life, lovers of perfection, who emerge in all classes, and who, while they are more or less in conflict with the present, point to a better future.”
— Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States (1888).
“He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove the pain of want and make the whole life complete and perfect. Hence he has no longer any need of things which are not to be won save by labor and conflict.”
— Epicurus, “Principal Doctrines,” 21.
“The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.”
— Brother Lawrence, from the "Fourth Conversation" in The Practice of The Presence of God at Gutenberg.org.
“Perfect your Will, Mind, and Feeling, their corporal organs, and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others, and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.”
— Bolesław Prus, epitome to his book The Most General Life Ideals (newspaper serialization, 1897–99; 1st book edition, 1901).
“In order to feel complete love, we can either delude ourselves that some imperfect object of our love is “perfection” or we can love perfection, which is God.”
— Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom, P. Sekirin, trans. (1997).
“A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.”
— Richard Steele, The Tatler, No. 227.

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