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Title: Lady Bird (2017)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Saoirse Ronan | ... | Lady Bird McPherson | |
| Laurie Metcalf | ... | Marion McPherson | |
| Tracy Letts | ... | Larry McPherson | |
| Lucas Hedges | ... | Danny O'Neill | |
| Timothée Chalamet | ... | Kyle Scheible | |
| Beanie Feldstein | ... | Julie Steffans | |
| Lois Smith | ... | Sister Sarah Joan | |
| Stephen McKinley Henderson | ... | Father Leviatch | |
| Odeya Rush | ... | Jenna Walton | |
| Jordan Rodrigues | ... | Miguel McPherson | |
| Marielle Scott | ... | Shelly Yuhan | |
| John Karna | ... | Greg Anrue | |
| Jake McDorman | ... | Mr. Bruno | |
| Bayne Gibby | ... | Casey Kelly | |
| Laura Marano | ... | Diana Greenway | |
Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) is a high school senior from the "wrong side of the tracks". She longs for adventure, sophistication, and opportunity, but finds none of that in her Sacramento Catholic high school. This movie follows the title character's senior year in high school, including her first romance, her participation in the school play, and most importantly, her applying for college. Written by Dehlia
The greatest thing about this film is its balance. It's funny, it's touching, it's emotional and it's heartfelt. Some scenes will make you laugh out loud, others will make you shiver and some will make you feel happy. Every emotion is perfectly measured out. Not one single scene is overdone or melodramatic.
The theme of the film is classic: growing up. Christine is seventeen and she wants to be different. That's why she calls herself Lady Bird. She lives in Sacramento ('The Midwest of California') and she hates it. That's why she wants to move to the East Coast ('where there is culture'). She attends a high school run by nuns called Immaculate Heart, but she feels she doesn't belong there. That's why she applies for Ivy League universities, defying advice and common sense.
All the coming-of-age ingredients are there: the longing for greater things (already in one of the very first scenes), the parents who have forgotten what it's like to be a teenager (one parent in particular, in this case), the joy of turning eighteen, the urge to get away from home.... and I could go on.
Because all this has already been done so many times on the big screen, it's difficult to stand out. But director Greta Gerwig has managed just that. Not by adding anything special to the mix of familiar themes, but by showing them just as they are. And by applying the perfect mix of a laugh, a tear, a shiver and some goosebumps.