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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are sharing the screen again in The Best You Can, and PEOPLE has the exclusive first look.
The costars, who married in 1988 after meeting on the set of the TV movie Lemon Sky in 1987, star in the rom-com alongside Brittany O’Grady, Ray Romano and Judd Hirsch.
Sedgwick, 60, plays Cynthia Rand, a “buttoned-up New York City urologist married to a brilliant Watergate prosecutor” named Warren Rand, played by Hirsch, 90. Per a synopsis, Cynthia has her “neatly ordered world turned upside down when [Warren] begins to slide into dementia.”
Meanwhile, the “sharp but chronically underachieving security guard” Stan Olszewski, played by Bacon, 67, “drifts through life without much direction, his current goal to find connection with his alienated twenty-something daughter Sammi.”
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Then, “worlds collide when Stan thwarts a robbery at Cynthia’s stately Brooklyn home. What begins as a chance encounter quickly evolves into an unconventional but deep friendship, built on late-night texts, candid confessions and irreverent humor.”
Soon Cynthia and Stan’s connection grows and their relationship “veers into an unexpected romantic entanglement, upending their lives and forcing them to reconsider what they truly want — and what they might be missing,” the synopsis teases.
“Getting to work together again is always special for us,” Sedgwick and Bacon say in a statement, “and The Best You Can offered a story that felt incredibly honest and relatable.”
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Writer-director Michael J. Weithorn, they add, “wrote a film about the beautifully messy parts of love and aging — themes we think audiences will really connect with.”
“We were also surrounded by an extraordinary cast who brought so much depth, humor and heart to this world,” Sedgwick and Bacon say. “Collaborating with them made the experience even more meaningful.”
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The couple, who shares two kids, has worked together numerous times over the years. In 2023, they told PEOPLE about their lasting connection and how they remain “each other’s biggest support and fans,” as Sedgwick put it at the time. “A sense of humor is crucial,” she said. “He is very freaking funny.”
The Best You Can, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, is on digital Nov. 25.
