Beginners
After his mother dies, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father, Hal (Christopher Plummer): that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
11 July 1956, Detroit, Michigan, USA
27 July 1985, Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA
16 June 1977
31 May 1952, England, UK
4 July 1945, Reinbeck, Iowa, USA
9 September 1972, Sibenik, Croatia, Yugoslavia
7 January 1954, New York City, New York, USA
13 December 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5 February 1966, Houston, Texas, USA
June 22, 2013
It understands death better than it understands life; it understands memories more than it understands what to learn from them.
June 02, 2013
Beginners, beyond its pervasive atmosphere of melancholy and loss, suffers from a little self-indulgence. It's your typical indie drama.
January 01, 2013
Plummer, who won an Oscar for this, is that rare actor lucky enough to manage half a century of undiminished dash and elan on screen.
May 12, 2015
Mills needs to look up from the lint that's collected in his navel.
June 23, 2011
"Beginners" is a delightful film - gentle, playful, creative and ultimately happy - though it's a tricky journey.
October 07, 2015
"Beginners" ultimately becomes so deeply resonant that you should pack some Kleenexes just in case.
June 20, 2011
Excruciatingly faux-naïve and sentimental...
June 29, 2011
"Beginners" is warm and revealing and bittersweet, if a trifle all over the place stylistically and thematically.
July 12, 2013
Mike Mills treats love and loss with a disarming tenderness and a refusal of sentimentality that make Beginners, his second feature, something of an anomaly among male identity flicks. What a finely wrought, wryly funny, transcendently sad movie this is.
June 24, 2011
A strange and beautiful film.
June 17, 2011
Wwhile there's plenty of melancholia, there is also sweet wonder and celebration in writer-director Mike Mills' semiautobiographical tale of a straight son coming to terms with his own love's possibilities after his father comes out of the closet.
July 01, 2011
The film is not about a straight man's struggle to understand how his father is gay; it's about learning that happiness is always possible if you're brave enough to keep your heart open.
