Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. [DVD]

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She relies on her mother, Barbara (Rachel McAdams), who is also struggling to adjust to life outside the big city, and her adoring grandmother, Sylvia (Kathy Bates), who isn’t happy they moved away – and likes to remind them every chance she gets.

The film pays homage to its source material while adding contemporary nuances that resonate with modern audiences. The movie is played as a 1970 historical piece rather than being updated to the modern world, which would of course require LGBTQ+ plot additions, though I suspect a completely original drama of this sort set in 1970 would not tacitly consent, as this does, to the invisibility of gay people. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.She relies on her mother (McAdams), who offers loving support but is herself finding her own footing in a new place, and her grandmother Sylvia (Bates), who is coming to terms with finding happiness in the next phase of her life.

Photograph: Dana Hawley/Dana Hawley/Lionsgate UK View image in fullscreen No answer … Abby Ryder Fortson in the title role of Are You There God? Starring Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, and Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret, this timeless, coming-of-age story has transcended decades and spoken to generations. Margaret desperately misses her New York-based grandma – that is, her dad’s mother Sylvia, a nice performance from Kathy Bates – and there are other problems. Judy Blume’s proto-YA classic from 1970 gets a screen adaptation; it is a sweet-natured, undemanding, oddly inconsequential movie about a lonely, smart 12-year-old anxious about the onset of puberty and adulthood. year-old Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) is uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school.However, she changed her mind when the director Kelly Fremon Craig promised to be faithful to the story.

Ant-Man’s Abby Rider Fortson is engaging as Margaret, who has to move from New York to New Jersey when her dad Herb (Benny Safdie) gets a big, though unspecified, job and his wife Barbara (Rachel McAdams) agrees to quit her art teaching career to be a stay-at-home mom for Margaret out there in the 'burbs. For all three, questions of identity, one’s place in the world, and what brings meaning to a life will draw them closer together than ever before.With a cleverly crafted script and an ensemble cast of immense talent, this film offers a heartfelt exploration of puberty, identity, and religious conflicts, all while delivering an ample dose of humor. At 11, Margaret is moving to a new town and beginning to contemplate everything about life, friendship, and adolescence. Barbara is bored and unsatisfied (are they living in the same street as Mad Men’s Don and Betsy Draper? And then there is Margaret’s black comic embarrassment-ordeal of growing up: the boys, the training bras and the sanitary towels. Eleven-year-old Margaret moves to a new town and starts to contemplate everything about life, friendship and adolescence.

Margaret finds herself at a crossroads, torn between the Christian faith of her mother and the Jewish heritage of her father. Based on the beloved novel of the same name by Judy Blume, published in 1970, if this cinematic adaptation is accurate to the book, then I'd love to read it. Brooks , Richard Sakai , Julie Ansell , Amy Brooks , Kelly Fremon Craig , Judy Blume Starring Abby Ryder Fortson , Rachel McAdams , Kathy Bates Studio Lions Gate Films Inc. But what about God, the absent character to whom Margaret occasionally addresses her concerns in private, and whose existence she never doubts for a moment? Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.Among other shows and movies, Gracie Films is responsible for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970-77), "Jerry McGuire" (1996), and "As Good as it Gets" (1997).