Lady Bird
Lady Bird is a 2017 American coming-of-age comedy drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig in her solo directorial debut, starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith. Set in Sacramento, California from fall 2002 to fall 2003, it focuses on a high school senior who shares a turbulent relationship with her mother. Filming for Lady Bird took place from August to October 2016 in California and New York. It premiered at the 44th Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2017, and was released theatrically in the United States on November 3, 2017, by A24, grossing $79 million, becoming their highest-grossing film at the time. The film received widespread critical acclaim, with high praise drawn to Gerwig's screenplay and direction, and the performances of Ronan and Metcalf. It was considered by many critics as one of the best films of 2017 and one of the best films of the 2010s. Lady Bird was chosen by the National Board of Review, the American Film Institute, and Time magazine as one of the top ten films of 2017. At the 90th Academy Awards, it earned five nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress (for Ronan), Best Supporting Actress (for Metcalf), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. At the 75th Golden Globe Awards, the film won two awards—Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy (for Ronan)—and was nominated for two others. It was also nominated for three British Academy Film Awards. The film was released with a soundtrack.
Darlene, can you excuse us? Darlene's staying. Why aren't you in Algebra 2? - I switched sections. - Why? Aren't Jenna and Kyle enough? [chuckles] I'm sorry that you're jealous. [chuckles] Jenna's a moron, you know. She's not. She's in AP Calculus. She's a moron in a deeper sense. You don't even know her.
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Miss Patty assigned you a role by the way, you just never showed up to claim it! - What role? - The tempest! - There is no role of the tempest! - It is the titular role! No, it's a made up thing so we all can participate! You can't do anything unless you're the center of attention, can you? Yeah. Well, you know your mom's tits, they're fake. Totally fake! She made one bad decision at 19! Two bad decisions! [female teacher] And at 15, this girl was pregnant. She decided that she was going to get an abortion. It made sense. It was the right thing to do. - She was sitting there... - Let me guess, she didn't get it. ...and something deep inside of her said, - "No." - Bingo. Anyone want to guess who this woman is? The young lady right here. - You? - No. It was not me. [girl] Um, your friend? No. The girl in the story was... my mother. [students gasps] I am that baby that she decided not to abort. That could have been me. That could have been my fate. Just because something looks ugly doesn't mean it's morally wrong. [teacher] What did you say, ma'am?
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I said, "Just because something looks ugly doesn't mean that it's morally wrong." You think dead children aren't morally wrong? No. I'm just saying that if you took up close pictures of my vagina while I was on my period, it would be disturbing, but it doesn't make it wrong. Excuse me? Listen. If your mother had had the abortion, we wouldn't have to sit through this stupid assembly. [students gasps, chuckle] [students whispering indistinctly] [Marion] Suspended? How does this happen? Everything we do is for you. Everything. Do you think I like driving that car around? - No. - Do you? - No. - Do you think I like working double shifts at the psych hospital? - No. - You needed to go to the Catholic school because your brother saw somebody knifed in front of him at the public school. Is that what you want? Larry, what are you doing on the computer? - Nothing. - You think your dad and I don't know how ashamed that you are of us? Your dad knows. Your dad knows why you ask him to drop you off a block away from school every day. - Dad, I didn't mean to. - You made him feel horrible! - Horrible! You know that? - [Lady Bird] I'm sorry.
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- Marion, you didn't have to bring that up. - No, Larry, you can't just be the nice guy. She has to know. She has to know how you feel. Otherwise, she's just gonna think she can say anything at all, and nobody ever gets hurt. Wrong side of the tracks! - I didn't mean it that way. - [Marion] Yeah. - It was a joke. - Yeah. It's just a joke Mom and Dad. They don't care. We didn't think we'd be in this house for 25 years. We thought we would've moved some place better. Whatever we give you, it's never enough. - It's never enough. - It is enough. Do you have any idea what it costs to raise you? And how much you're just throwing away every day? Give me a number. What?
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So the attack on Baghdad last night, - it was absolutely unbelievable. - [phone ringing] [female reporter] That's right. Yeah, the likes of which, uh, many US... - [Lady Bird] Hello? - Hey, it's me, Jenna. Hey. Are you calling me from school? No. We got out early 'cause all the Irish girls got totally sloshed by noon. Oh, right. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Yeah. I guess they'd been stockpiling mini liquor bottles in the tampon machine, - and now they're all throwing up. - [chuckles] Everyone else got out early.
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