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Product Name: 20th Century Women [2016]
UPC: 031398259770
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Awesome, heartfelt film
If you are a fan of writer/director Mike Mills' work, then you already know that this is his follow up to Beginners. Highly recommend watching both 20th Century Women and Beginners to see the two emotional films dedicated to the lives of his mother and father, respectively.
Set in the 1970s, an aging, single mom (Annette Bening) sees the need to help her teenage son grow up with a stronger sense of manliness. She feels inadequate for the job; so she recruits 2 acquaintances, a promiscuous teen age girl and an starving artist type of young woman to help. The son has strong romantic feelings for the teenage girl, who rather uncharacteristically can only relate to the boy as a platonic friend. The impoverished, artistic young woman hasn't put her own life in order, much less help anybody else. This is a gentle comedy about clueless but well meaning women and a girl offering help to a boy about his masculinity. They offer no real help beyond wanting to offer help, but that seems to be enough for good results.
