20th Century Women

Movie

2016

1h 59m

English

Drama

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20th Century Women

Movie

2016

1h 59m

English

Drama

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Watch on HBO (Via Hulu)

In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.

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Cast

Dorothea Fields

Jamie Fields

Abbie Porter

Julie Miller

William

Julie's Mother

Gail Porter (Abbie's Mother)

Young Jamie

Julie's Sister

Charlie

Matt

Julian

Trish

Cindy

Teen in Therapy

Teen in Therapy

Abbie's ObGyn

Mark

Brian

Tanya

Michelle

Fire Chief

J. Francisco Rodriguez

Fireman

Zoë Worth

Planned Parenthood Worker

Finn Roberts

Tim Drammer

Directed By: Mike Mills

Written By: Mike Mills (Screenplay)

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nighrtwing says...

7 years ago

This isn't the best movie of all time — neither the best of the year. But 20th Century Women is really a movie to remember. Very meaningful, well written, directed, and wholeheartedly edited. Although it didn't get enough recognition, it's a movie that I'd recommend to anyone, and I'm glad to say: specially to women. I'm not saying it was underrated, but it didn't get enough buzz as it actually should.

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Nancy L Draper says...

7 years ago

What a fantastic movie! It's complex, evocative, and intimate. Well deserving of it's Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. The acting is complex and fully formed: Annette Bening is superb, Elle Fanning and Luca Jade Zumann belie their age giving seasoned performances, Billy Crudup and Greta Gerwig complete an ensemble of amazingly drawn characters. Some of the cinematic choices were unexpected but appropriate to the period. Mike Miles mined the depth of the era in which he grew up and portrayed it quintessentially. I can't say enough about how good this movie is. I give it a 9.5 (next to perfect) out of 10.

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Saint Pauly says...

7 years ago

Mike Mills' semi autobiographical character says he was unable to explain his mother to his children. He has the same difficulty in this film. Watch Almost Famous instead.

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randomacd4 says...

7 years ago

20th Century Women is one of the great films of 2016 that went completely under the wire. The cast is great with Annette Bening leading the way and the story is a great complex semi-autobiographical piece about being raise by a unorthodox family.

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iheardthatmoviewas

6 years ago

The year is 1979 and Dorothea Fields finds herself in her 50s raising a teenage boy, Jaime, while running a house in Santa Barbara that is always going through renovations. Jaime’s father is not in the picture but who needs a father when your mother rents rooms to a handful of particular individua More

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Reno

6 years ago

**Rather a 20th century tale!**

You have seen films like this often. This is where a chick film meets art. Art means not the flick full of inspiration, message, awareness. But the presentation was so pleasant. The screenplay carefully picked the right events, and the dialogues were good. The book More

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beyondthecineramadome

2 years ago

Full review: https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/-20th-century-women-review

Director Mike Mills has described _20th Century Women_ as a love letter to his childhood set in a sleepy Santa Barbara of 1979. Dorothea (Annette Bening) runs a boarding house and lives More

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