I Swear, Kirk Jones’ film based on the true story of Tourette’s Syndrome campaigner John Davidson, has been acquired by Sony Picture Classics for release in the United States.
Starring Robert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson, and Peter Mullan, the film world premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.
I Swear charts Davidson’s Tourette’s diagnosis at the age of 15 years old. Set within 1980s Britain, the story follows him throughout his troubled teens and early adulthood, and explores this little known and entirely misunderstood condition, along with his attempts to live a ‘normal’ life against the odds.
The production worked closely with the Tourette’s community, casting individuals who live with Tourette’s, and collaborated with a Tourette’s charity.
Blending compassion with social realism, the film examines how stigma and rumor can distort the truth and how one young person’s struggle for acceptance reveals deeper cracks in the town’s moral fabric.
Jones said, “I am thrilled to partner with Sony Pictures Classics on I SWEAR. Their history, vision, ambition and passion for what is a very special project for us, feels like a perfect fit for US and additional territories.”
According to Sony Pictures, “I Swear is one of those extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, true-to-life movies, emotionally engaging, funny and compelling. Many will identify as I SWEAR explores conquering an entirely misunderstood condition, by a young man and the people around him. Directed to perfection by Kirk Jones with amazing performances by Robert Aramayo and stalwarts Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson and Peter Mullan, I SWEAR will be adored by audiences everywhere.”
Sony Picture Classics has also acquired the film for release in Latin America, most of Eastern Europe, Turkey, Southeast Asia, Portugal and South Korea.
Watch the first trailer for I Swear above.
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