The US release date for the film adaptation of The Salt Path has been confirmed, amid ongoing controversy over author Raynor Winn and her memoir.
The movie, starring Gillian Anderson as Winn and Jason Isaacs as her husband Moth, was released in the UK last summer.
It follows the couple as they embark on a trek along the South West Coast Path, prompted by a series of catastrophes including the loss of their “forever home” and Moth being diagnosed with corticobasal degeneration (CBD), a rare and incurable neurological condition.
Soon after the film’s release, however, an investigation from The Observer cast doubt upon some of the claims made in the memoir, suggesting that parts of the book, which has sold over two million copies worldwide, may have been fabricated.
Winn said that the article was “grotesquely unfair” and “highly misleading”, claiming that it “seeks to systematically pick apart my life”.
Despite this literary scandal, the film will arrive in US and Canadian cinemas on 22 May, and will be distributed by Rialto.
The distribution company’s CEO Kelly Rogers described the project as “a film of quiet power” and said that it “speaks to something deeply human”, according to Variety.
The film was a box office hit in the UK, where it earned £7.6 million, making it one of 2025’s most successful British indie movies.
When the Salt Path scandal broke last summer, its publisher Penguin said that it “undertook all the necessary due diligence” before releasing the book in 2018, and said that it had “not received any concerns about the book’s content” before the investigation was released.
Winn had been due to release another book, her fourth non-fiction title, On Winter Hill, in October 2025, but its publication has since been delayed to January 2028 after the author suffered “considerable distress”.
Earlier this month, Winn made headlines again when it was revealed that she had previously published a book under a pseudonym six years before the release of The Salt Path, which she had widely described as her debut.
Winn’s lawyer said that she released How Not to Dal Dy Dir in 2012 under the alias Izzy Wyn-Thomas.
