Film
Lady Bird
Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Greta Gerwig), Best Actress (Saoirse Ronan), and Best Supporting Actress (Laurie Metcalf).
Greta Gerwig excavates humor and pathos in her directorial debut, which charts the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter. Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Ronan) fights against her wildly loving, deeply opinionated, and strong-willed mom (Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Letts) loses his job. Set in Sacramento, California, amid the rapidly shifting American economic landscape of 2002, Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.
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