LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 04: Julia Roberts attends the Los Angeles Special Screening of Amazon MGM Studios “After The Hunt” at David Geffen Theater, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 04, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Morrissey and the Smiths come up in After The Hunt, director Luca Guadagnino’s new movie starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny. As Time’s review explains, there’s a scene in which Sevigny — in character as Kim, a Yale Philosophy Department psychotherapist —
expresses surprise that a Morrissey song is playing at a college bar given that he has become a pariah among progressives for aligning himself with right-wing causes. Roberts, in character as Kim’s fellow Yale philosophy professor Alma Imhoff, corrects her: It’s a Smiths song, “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now,” not solo Morrissey. Sevigny shrugs as if to say the distinction is moot.
