Monday, January 2, 2012

MOVIE: Beginners

Super story about sadness...
Limited release 6/3/11
12/23/11 on the Delta flight from Phoenix to Detroit
R (1:44)
RT:  Critics:  84% Audience: 79%
cag: Liked it a lot
Director:  Mike Mills
Focus Features

Ian McGregor, Christopher Plummer

After McGregor's mother dies, his father (Plummer) tells him that he's always been gay...and that his mother knew it.  As an elderly dude he begins to live the life that he's always dreamed of, only to find that he has stage 4 cancer.  The story is played out as the son remembers bits and pieces of things that happened, to both his dad and himself..discovering love, too...at the same time.

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