Margaret

United States

2011

149 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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PROD Gary Gilbert, Sydney Pollack, Scott Rudin

CAST Anna Paquin, J. Smith-Cameron, Jeannie Berlin, Jean Reno, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Kenneth Lonergan, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Steele, Kieran Culkin, Olivia Thirlby, John Gallagher Jr., Allison Janney, Michael Ealy, Rosemarie DeWitt, Matt Bush, Cyrus Hernstadt, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Adam Rose, Betsy Aidem, Jake O'Connor, Nicholas Grodin, Adam LeFevre

Margaret centers on a 17-year-old New York City high-school student who feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman’s life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world. –IMDb

Director

Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter and director. His film You Can Count On Me, which he wrote and directed, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, won the Sundance 2000 Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, the NY Film Critics Circle, LA Film Critics Circle, Writers Guild of America and National Board of Review awards for Best Screenplay of 2001, the AFI awards for Best Film and Best New Writer. He co-wrote the film Gangs Of New York which garnered a WGA and Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. As a playwright he has been represented in New York by Lobby Hero, (Playwrights Horizons, John Houseman Theatre, Drama Desk Best Play nominee, Outer Critics Circle Best Play and John Gassner Playwrighting nominee, included in the 2000-2001 Best Plays annual), The Waverly Gallery (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Promenade; 2001 Pulitzer Prize runner-up), and This is our Youth (Drama Desk Best Play nominee). Lobby Hero (Olivier Award… read more

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Gerry Miriello

1May12

Long shots of buildings and the harbor, people crossing streets, adolescents growing up in an hysterical time with absurd values but still trying to escape in order to glance the truth...this is a film that reveals more with each delicate turn. The abrupt cuts and tonal shifts could imply that the director's cut is even better.

Tyler

8Mar12

Cathartic, full-blooded, infuriating, often funny, and imperfect; bookended by two of the most unabashedly emotional sequences I've seen in recent cinema: the bus accident scene and the operatic (in multiple senses of the word) finale. I saw it weeks ago and it's still in my mind.

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