Storyline
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
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Cast
Elle Fanning, Alia Shawkat, Billy Crudup, Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, John Billingsley, Waleed Zuaiter, Nathalie Love, Kirk Bovill, Matthew Cardarople, Alison Elliott, Lucas Jade Zumann, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Thea Gill, Laura Wiggins, Finn Roberts, Curran Walters, Vitaly Andrew LeBeau, Cameron Gellman, Finnegan Seeker Bell, Zoë Nanos, Lauren Foley
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Reviews
91
Masterfully played by Annette Bening, Dorothea is a fascinating character of contradictions.
91
This is the rare movie that’s redeemed by its unchecked nostalgia.
83
The Film Stage
If the screenplay’s sense of scale can begin to feel limited by an overfamiliarity in environment, it’s suddenly made expansive with the realization of how much these places are extensions of these five people’s lives and personalities.
80
The sheer likability of these lived-in characters is a powerful magnet, thanks to insightful writing and a note-perfect ensemble anchored by a never-better Annette Bening.
80
For all of Mills’s cinematic tricks, he’s emerging as a great realist film-maker.
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