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Lady Bird
Marion McPherson, a California nurse, works tirelessly to keep her family afloat after her husband loses his job. She also maintains a turbulent bond with a teenage daughter who is just like her -- loving, strong-willed and deeply opinionated.
29 November 1995, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 February 1964, Redwood City, California, USA
12 June 1948, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
December 13, 2017
There are more funny lines in Lady Bird's first five minutes than in most films.November 16, 2017
One of the best movies about adolescence to come along in years.November 17, 2017
"Lady Bird" is a deeply accomplished debut, as much a love letter to Gerwig's hometown as it is to awkward adolescence. It flies.December 13, 2017
For a film that dwells in the past, Gerwig avoids banal sentimentality, instead offering us something excitingly present and ephemeral.December 19, 2017
Metcalf gives a prickly and heartbreaking performance, and she's not the only one supplied with grace notes: Almost every character gets one or another.December 21, 2017
Gerwig's movie doesn't say much new about growing up cool with parents who aren't. But it says plenty about Gerwig's talent, another channel for a distinctive voice of her generation.November 30, 2017
Gerwig finds a warmer part of herself when, unencumbered by any lab partner, she returns to her hometown with Lady Bird. One can only hope that, this time, she stays.December 18, 2017
Yet while [Greta] Gerwig doesn't exactly reinvent the coming-of-age genre, she packs it with great scenes, dialogue and performancesNovember 29, 2017
A heartfelt coming-of-age story that perfectly captures the bittersweet transition from adolescence to dawning adulthood...November 16, 2017
Lots of movies are set to be popping up in multiplexes, but few as wonderful as "Lady Bird."December 12, 2017
Lady Bird is a brilliant little movie that deals with ideas both big and small. But, most powerful is the relationship between Lady Bird and Marion. It is harsh and funny and sometimes hard to watch. But it is undeniably and eternally there.December 24, 2017
Gerwig is traveling backwards as a writer from Frances Ha to Mistress America to Lady Bird. That trilogy of films is, dare I say, even better than Francois Truffaut's collected Adventures of Antoine Doinel.