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Beginners (2010)
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Ratings: 7.2/10 from 24,289 users
Metascore:
81/100
Reviews: 93 user | 216 critic | 36 from Metacritic.com A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover. Director:Mike MillsWriter:Mike Mills |
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| Ewan McGregor | ... | ||
| Christopher Plummer | ... | ||
| Mélanie Laurent | ... | ||
| Goran Visnjic | ... |
Andy
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| Kai Lennox | ... |
Elliot
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| Mary Page Keller | ... |
Georgia
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| China Shavers | ... |
Shauna
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| Melissa Tang | ... |
Liz
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| Amanda Payton | ... |
Party Person
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| Luke Diliberto | ... |
Green Witch
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| Lou Taylor Pucci | ... |
Magician
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| Bambadjan Bamba | ... |
The Sads
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| Hana Jane | ... |
The Sads
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Samuel T. Ritter | ... |
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Storyline
It's 2003. Thirty-eight year old graphic artist Oliver Fields has just lost his father Hal Fields to cancer, after Oliver's mother Georgia Fields passed away five years earlier. Oliver is naturally a sullen man due to his growing up relationship with his parents (his mother who had a unique view on life) and watching his parents' cordial but somewhat distant relationship with each other, but is more so now because of his personal family loss. Oliver embarks on a relationship with Anna, a French actress. Oliver is hoping that his re-energized relationship with Hal following Georgia's death and Hal's new outlook on life during that time will show Oliver how to act in a loving relationship. After Georgia's death, Hal came out of the closet and began to live with a joie de vivre that did not exist before, which included an open relationship with a much younger man named Andy... Written by Huggo
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This is what love feels like.Parents Guide:
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Country:
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Beginners, así se siente el amor See more »Filming Locations:
Akbar - 4356 Sunset Boulevard, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$3,200,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$141,340 (USA) (5 June 2011) (5 Screens)Gross:
$14,311,701 (Worldwide) (27 February 2012)Company Credits
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Hal: The chair is not gay, obviously.
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Written by Haven Gillespie, Seymour Simons and Richard Whiting
Performed by Josephine Baker
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Early in the movie, Oliver comments that his dog, Arthur (and other dogs in the same breed, Jack Russell terrier) now by chance are very cute to humans, and that people love them so much that they often put them in TV shows and movies. The most famous "acting" Jack Russells of recent years (Moose, who played "Eddie" in the TV show Frasier and Moose's son, Enzo, who was the title character in My Dog Skip) were both owned and trained by the same professional animal trainer, Mathilde de Cagny, who owns and trains Cosmo, the dog playing Arthur. See more »Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Oliver (Ewan McGregor) goes to a fancy party as Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, but his accent is more Bavarian than Austrian. See more »Quotes
Oliver: And what about the chair, is it gay?Hal: The chair is not gay, obviously.
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"Breezin' Along with the Breeze"Written by Haven Gillespie, Seymour Simons and Richard Whiting
Performed by Josephine Baker
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