Beginners
Summer 2011 Summer Films series
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 8:00pm
Acadia Cinema's Al Whittle Theatre
450 Main Street, Wolfville, NS
Directed by Mike Mills
Screenplay by Mike Miller
Starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent
Rated 14A ·
1h 45m
United States
English
Beginners
When it comes to relationships, we’re all beginners.
From writer/director Mike Mills comes a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even at its most serious moments.
Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has passed away.
This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who – following 44 years of marriage – came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humor and hope that his father taught him.
“Beginners is at core a lovely, wistful, honest, funny love story.” — Ken Eisen, Railroad Square Cinema