20th Century Women
Lifts us up on a wave of openhearted emotion and keen intelligence. It bursts with the sad, messy, ungovernable beauty of life.
20th Century Women
During the summer of 1979, a Santa Barbara single mom and boardinghouse landlord (Annette Bening) decides the best way she can parent her teenage son (Lucas Jade Zumann) is to enlist her young tenants - a quirky punk photographer (Greta Gerwig), a mellow handyman (Billy Crudup) and her son's shrewd best friend (Elle Fanning) - to serve as role models in a changing world.
Genre
Comedy,
Drama,
Women and Film
Runtime
118
Language
English
Director
Mike Mills
Cast
Annette Bening,
Elle Fanning,
Greta Gerwig,
Billy Crudup
Awards:
Nominee, Best Picture - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes
Nominee, Best Actress - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes
Nominee, Best Female Lead, Spirit Awards
Nominee, Best Screenplay, Spirit Awards
Nominee, Best Writing (Original Screenplay), Academy Awards
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
In 2010, Mike Mills wrote and directed “Beginners,” a movie based loosely on his father’s coming out of the closet at age 75; it won Christopher Plummer an Oscar. Mills’s new film, “20th Century Women,” is loosely based on his mother and her experiences as a working single parent in the late 1970s ...
Played at
Claremont 5 12.25.16 - 12.26.16
NoHo 7 1.20.17 - 2.09.17
Monica Film Center 1.20.17 - 2.09.17
Town Center 5 1.20.17 - 2.09.17
Playhouse 7 2.10.17 - 2.23.17
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