This Alabama bio-drama is about gender discrimination in the workplace, and the harassment and cut-rate pay faced by Lilly Ledbetter at a Goodyear plant in the union-fearing American South.

Clarkson, 64, is a few years older than Ledbetter was when she brough suit against Goodyear and the American unequal pay workplace. But she’s got the necessary Steel Magnolia reserve and fury to pull off this story of battling a sexist system and a malevolent and sometimes violent culture and work environment.

John Benjamin Hickey co-stars.

Guessing “Lilly” is making the festival rounds now or in the very near future before finding its way to a theater or streamer near you.