Beginners
Filmmaker Mike Mills was inspired by his own father’s coming out late in life to shape a clear-eyed look at how our family histories quietly inform all of our relationships. When Hal (Christopher Plummer, in an Academy Award–winning performance) reveals he is gay at the age of seventy-five, his son, Oliver (Ewan McGregor), gets the chance to know a more vulnerable version of his father. In the second of the film's two interwoven time periods, Oliver meets Anna (Mélanie Laurent) soon after his father’s death, beginning a romance that is informed by the risks and honesty of Hal’s final years. Balancing dry humor and DIY charm, Beginners extends an uncommon generosity to its characters—still figuring themselves out at all stages of life.
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Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Cast
- Ewan McGregor
- Oliver
- Christopher Plummer
- Hal
- Mélanie Laurent
- Anna
- Goran Visnjic
- Andy
- Kai Lennox
- Elliot
- Mary Page Keller
- Georgia
- Keegan Boos
- Young Oliver
Credits
- Director
- Mike Mills
- Written by
- Mike Mills
- Produced by
- Leslie Urdang
- Produced by
- Dean Vanech
- Produced by
- Miranda de Pencier
- Produced by
- Jay Van Hoy
- Produced by
- Lars Knudsen
- Coproducer
- Geoff Linville
- Coproducer
- Fran Giblin
- Director of photography
- Kasper Tuxen
- Production designer
- Shane Valentino
- Film editor
- Olivier Bugge Coutté
- Costume designer
- Jennifer Johnson
- Music by
- Roger Neill
- Music by
- David Palmer
- Music by
- Brian Reitzell
- Casting by
- Courtney Bright
- Casting by
- Nicole Daniels
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