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Beginners (Ewan McGregor)

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Synopsis

From writer/director Mike Mills comes a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be - even at its most serious moments.

Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Mélanie Laurent) only months after his father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who – following 44 years of marriage – came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life.

The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than ever before. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humor, and hope that his father taught him.

3 Reasons To buy this film

Beginners has met with universal acclaim from both critics and audiences around the world.
Christopher Plummer gives a memorable, heart-warming performance as a gay man who comes out of the closet late in life.
Ewan McGregor is easily a TLA customer favorite - even when he isn't shedding his clothes.

Review

At the core of this luxuriously comforting film is Oliver (the always appealing Ewan McGregor) whose father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has just passed away. Whisking us to 1955, writer/director Mike Mills takes us back to when Hal married Georgia (Mary Page Keller) and shows us their chaste marriage of distant kisses and "sorry about the late night at the office."

With the two stories running parallel they merge and we learn that Hal comes out of the closet when his wife passes away. He quickly meets a much-younger lover and lives a quite joyously gay life much to the bewilderment of his son. While the son and new lover don't exactly bond right away, their relationship is depicted as truly human. A character study, Beginners revels in peeling the layers of connections between these people and most strikingly the dog Cosmo (somehow we've forgotten to mention him till now!!) Director Mike Mills was a designer before switching careers to film and his touch is evident in the beautiful art direction for both the '50s period storyline and the current day storyline. I'd expect an Oscar nod for art direction. Even with two deaths hanging in the background of the film, Beginners is fun - don't worry - it's not a dark, dank trip into the depths of your soul - enjoy it.

-- Scott Cranin

Product Format Information

DVD : $26.99

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Close Caption: Yes
Region Code: 1
UPC: 025192095139

Studio : Universal, Focus Features

Languages: English Dolby Digital 5.1 (Primary) , Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 , English Subtitles , French Subtitles , Spanish Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.85

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Blu-ray : $31.49

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Close Caption: Yes
Region Code: 1
UPC: 025192095146

Studio : Universal, Focus Features

Languages: English DTS-HD 5.1 (Primary) , Spanish DTS 5.1 , English Subtitles , French Subtitles , Spanish Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.85

Customer Reviews

Finally Coming Out

Amos Lassen wrote on 09/16/2011:

As gay people we do not always like to talk about aging but it is a fact of life and now the movies have Christopher Plummer playing a 75 year old man, Hal, who comes out after his wife’s death. In doing so he begins living for the first time and it is a revelation for him to finally be who he is. The movie is not only about him, however—it is also about his son, Oliver, played by Ewan McGregor who has become who he is because of the influences of both his mother and father.

Actually the story is about Oliver and how he deals with his father being gay and is battling cancer at the same time. The film is perfectly cast and directed by Mike Mills. We see the world through Oliver’s eyes for when his father dies, he has to contemplate life. His relationship to his dad and all of the choices he has ever made. Hal waited until his wife was dead until he came out to his son and when he does it is touching and sensitive. Oliver is actually happy for his father and that he is looking for love but he also remembers how lonely his mother had been.

Oliver falls in love with a French actress and she cannot seem to handle relationships and Oliver realizes that he must work at this and so he begins to think less about his parents and more about himself. The plot of the film actually begins after Oliver loses Hal to cancer and has a lot to say about aging, life and death.