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Beginners
After his mother dies, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father, Hal (Christopher Plummer): that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
16 June 1977
31 May 1952, England, UK
19 November 1956, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA
27 July 1985, Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA
May 12, 2015
Mills needs to look up from the lint that's collected in his navel.
June 22, 2013
It understands death better than it understands life; it understands memories more than it understands what to learn from them.
June 20, 2011
Excruciatingly faux-naïve and sentimental...
January 01, 2013
Plummer, who won an Oscar for this, is that rare actor lucky enough to manage half a century of undiminished dash and elan on screen.
October 07, 2015
"Beginners" ultimately becomes so deeply resonant that you should pack some Kleenexes just in case.
June 02, 2013
Beginners, beyond its pervasive atmosphere of melancholy and loss, suffers from a little self-indulgence. It's your typical indie drama.
June 29, 2011
"Beginners" is warm and revealing and bittersweet, if a trifle all over the place stylistically and thematically.
July 12, 2013
Mike Mills treats love and loss with a disarming tenderness and a refusal of sentimentality that make Beginners, his second feature, something of an anomaly among male identity flicks. What a finely wrought, wryly funny, transcendently sad movie this is.
June 17, 2011
Wwhile there's plenty of melancholia, there is also sweet wonder and celebration in writer-director Mike Mills' semiautobiographical tale of a straight son coming to terms with his own love's possibilities after his father comes out of the closet.
June 24, 2011
A strange and beautiful film.
July 01, 2011
The film is not about a straight man's struggle to understand how his father is gay; it's about learning that happiness is always possible if you're brave enough to keep your heart open.
June 23, 2011
"Beginners" is a delightful film - gentle, playful, creative and ultimately happy - though it's a tricky journey.