The film focuses on three women in Santa Barbara in 1979 who set out to teach the teen son of one of them how to be a man.
The film focuses on three women in Santa Barbara in 1979 who set out to teach the teen son of one of them how to be a man.
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Mike Mills
Writer:
Mike Mills
Starring:
Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Lucas Jade Zumann, Alison Elliott
Producer:
Megan Ellison
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Review by Brian Orndorf, January 19, 2017
9 / 10
In 2010’s “Beginners,” writer/director Mike Mills mined personal experiences to inform a tender story of parental understanding and acceptance, delivering a level of intimacy his debut effort, 2005’s “Thumbsucker,” completely lacked. “Beginners” offered a more exploratory viewing experience, and Mills wisely builds on it for “20th Century Women,” which also presents a semi-autobiographical approach to best capture nuanced human behavior. Taking audiences to 1979, a year of remarkable social, political, and music transitions, Mills inspects ways of sexuality, friendships, and maturation, but he
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