20th Century Women

2016 Drama
73%

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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20th Century Women

Five years since his semi-autobiographical Beginners and writer-director Mike Mills mines his life once more for this engaging drama. Set in Santa Barbara in 1979, fifteen-year-old Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) lives in a dilapidated house in the process of remodelling with mum Dorothea (Bening), Bowie-obsessed lodger Abbie (Gerwig) and mechanic/handyman William (Crudup). Mum fears she's out of touch with this new Punk generation and so calls on Abbie and Jamie's clued-in friend Julie (Fanning) to help school her son in the ways of righteousness…

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