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Lady Bird
'What if this is the best version?' Sometimes the person you fight with most is the one who loves you the loudest. 🐦
Who it's for
Lady Bird captures the push-pull of a close, combustible mother–daughter relationship without picking a side.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Greta Gerwig's coming-of-age film follows Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson, a high school senior in Sacramento in 2002 who dreams of going to college on the East Coast even though her family is short on money. Her relationship with her mother Marion is close but stormy, and Marion sees her ambitions as unrealistic and ungrateful. Her father Larry quietly supports her college applications.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Teen drinking and brief graphic nudity.
Age: R (language, brief graphic nudity, sexual content, teen partying; MPAA)
It is the little things that I leave behind for my loved ones,—great things are for everyone.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 178
