Netflix has released a new trailer for “May December” which is starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore and directed by filmmaker Todd Haynes, the film first premiered back in May at the Cannes Film Festival and is set for a limited theatrical release before hitting Netflix.

“May December” is based loosely on the true story of Mary Kay Letourneau, an American teacher charged with having a sexual relationship with one of her 12-year-old students. The film follows Hollywood actor Elizabeth Berry(Natalie Portman) plays an amiable actress looking to play a notorious tabloid sensation, Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore) on screen.

Berry travels to Georgia to research the life of Gracie after she became tabloid fodder over the May-December relationship with a man 23 years her junior.

Berry observes Gracie and Joe’s marriage 20 years after their relationship was national news, a time when they buckle under the strain of becoming empty nesters.

Mary Kay Letourneau, a true-life schoolteacher who became a registered sex offender and was imprisoned after pleading guilty to the second-degree rape of a 13-year-old boy from her sixth grade class, whom she later married.

“May December” was written by screenwriter Samy Burch and the film also stars D.W. Moffett, Piper Curda, Elizabeth Yu, Gabriel Chung, Cory Michael Smith and Lawrence Arancio. 

The film will open the 2023 New York Film Festival in late September before getting its limited theatrical release on Nov. 17. “May December” will then head to Netflix on Dec. 1.