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The impact of parents on their own children has rarely been captured while using wit and compassion of Beginners, a sweet comedy about love and fear. Ewan McGregor, perhaps probably the most charming actor alive, plays a graphic artist named Oliver, whose elderly father Hal (played with a deft mix of twinkle and gravitas by Christopher Plummer) comes out as gay after Oliver's mother dies. Alas, Hal also discovers he has terminal cancer--but he crams just as much life in the time left to him as they can. Beginners skips forward and backward between Oliver's last months with his father with his fantastic first months having a young actress, Anna (Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds), towards whom he feels a mesmerizing attraction… sufficient reason for whom he shares a paralyzing fear of intimacy. All that sounds ponderous and drab, but Beginners could be the exact opposite. Writer-director Mike Mills brings a wonderfully light and wistfully humorous touch to those heavy topics, also as a close look for engaging visuals. Mills and the outstanding cast delicately weave the different threads of Oliver's life right into a delicate but emotionally potent whole. Mills's previous film, Thumbsucker, showed promise; Beginners fulfills it. --Bret Fetzer

Golden Globe® nominee Ewan McGregor (Star Wars I, II, III), Academy Award® nominee Christopher Plummer (Inside Man), and Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds) star in Beginners, an uplifting comedy about how funny and transformative life can be. When graphic designer Oliver (McGregor) meets free-spirited Anna (Laurent) shortly after his father (Plummer) has transpired away, Oliver realizes just simply how much of an beginner he is with regards to long-lasting romantic love. Memories of his father, who, following a death of his wife of 45 years, became available from the closet at age 75 to reside a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life, encourage Oliver to open up himself up to the potential of an true relationship. Inspired by writer/director Mike Mills' own father, this is an original love story that critics cheer is "smart, poignant and frequently hilarious!" (Karen Durbin, Elle) Starring: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Mary Page Keller Directed by: Mike Mills