20TH CENTURY WOMEN
Comedy, Drama
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Set in Santa Barbara in the summer of 1979, single mother Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening) feels that she may not be ‘ enough’ to prepare her adolescent son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) for the next phase of his life. Dorothea is in her 50s and, having grown up in the Depression, acknowledges that the cultural changes since her own youth are enormous. So, she enlists the help of two younger women in her son’s upbringing; Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a free-spirited punk photographer, and Julie (Elle Fanning), a rebellious teenage neighbour. Billy Crudup plays a farm handyman. Together the three women, who each form a different generation of the 20th century, teach Jamie about life, love and freedom. The film celebrates the complexities of women, family, time and the connections we spend our life searching for.