Screenplay:
Mike MillsCinematography:
Kasper TuxenCast:
Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Mary Page Keller, China Jesusita Shavers, Lou Taylor Pucci, Melissa Tang, Kai Lennox (more)VOD (2)
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From writer/director Mike Mills comes a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even at its most serious moments. “Beginners” imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Mélanie Laurent) only months after his father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who – following 44 years of marriage – came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humor, and hope that his father taught him. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ewan McGregor
UK
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Trainspotting (1996)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Christopher Plummer
Canada
Best movies:
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
My Brother Tom (1986) (TV movie)
12 Monkeys (1995)
Mélanie Laurent
France
Best movies:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Now You See Me (2013)
The Concert (2009)
Goran Visnjic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
The Boys (2019) (series)
Ice Age (2002)
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 (1999) (video compilation)
Mary Page Keller
USA
Best movies:
The Negotiator (1998)
Beginners (2010)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter (1991) (TV movie)
China Jesusita Shavers
Best movies:
Beginners (2010)
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
The Glass House (2001)
Lou Taylor Pucci
USA
Best movies:
The Music Never Stopped (2011)
Empire Falls (2005) (TV movie)
Brotherhood (2010)
Melissa Tang
USA
Best movies:
Beginners (2010)
Post Grad (2009)
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Kai Lennox
Best movies:
Pleasantville (1998)
Boogie Nights (1997)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Shelley Robertson
Best movies:
Beginners (2010)
The Manor (2021)
Based on an Untrue Story (1993) (TV movie)
Bruce French
USA
Best movies:
Coming Home (1978)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Reynaldo Pacheco
Bolivia
Best movies:
Beginners (2010)
Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)
Without Men (2011)
Jennifer Hasty
USA
Best movies:
Horrible Bosses (2011)
Beginners (2010)
Frederick Keeve
Best movies:
Gone Girl (2014)
Mother and Child (2009)
Pretty/Handsome (2008) (TV movie)
Amanda Payton
Best movies:
Beginners (2010)
The Perfect Host (2010)
Joanna Theobalds
Jamaica
Best movies:
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Horrible Bosses (2011)
Jean-Philippe (2006)
Bambadjan Bamba
Ivory Coast
Algerita Wynn
USA
Best movies:
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
Go (1999)
Beginners (2010)
Rodney Saulsberry
USA
Best movies:
Animatrix (2003)
Tango & Cash (1989)
Beginners (2010)
Lana Young
Best movies:
Southpaw (2015)
A Jazzman's Blues (2022)
Beginners (2010)