Sharon Lawrence & Nicholas Gonzalez’s #MeToo Movie Imbalance Gets Trailer Ahead of Premiere | Exclusive

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive trailer for Imbalance, the upcoming provocative drama starring Emmy nominee Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue) and Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor). The movie will have its world premiere at the 2026 Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 10.

“Set against the shifting cultural landscape of higher education during the #MeToo movement and the evolution of Title IX regulations, Imbalance follows Elizabeth Drewer, an esteemed and highly ethical philosophy professor, whose life is upended when she confronts a forbidden attraction to her teaching assistant and advisee, Richard Amado,” reads the official synopsis.

Check out the exclusive Imbalance trailer below (watch more trailers):

What happens in the Imbalance movie?

The video introduces Lawrence’s character Elizabeth as a professor whose personal life and career are jeopardized after she begins a forbidden romance with a teaching assistant. The trailer highlights the moral dilemma she’ll be facing. The timely movie will also star Karin delaPeña Collison, Paul Witten, James Morrison, and Megan Elizabeth Barker.

Imbalance is written, directed, and produced by Dale Griffiths Stamos. The movie was filmed in Santa Barbara, and is described as a cinematic love letter to the city’s beauty and cultural landscape. Gretel Snyder is producing, while Eva Haller is serving as an executive producer. Sean Blodgett is a consulting producer, editor, and post-production supervisor.

“Imbalance is a story about what happens when a woman of the mind is challenged by an unexpected passion and begins to sacrifice her own ethical standards,” Stamos said in a statement. “I also wanted to explore how charged teacher-student relationships have become in academia — particularly in the wake of #MeToo — and how these dynamics mirror broader power imbalances in workplace romances.”

Source: Comingsoon.net