Beginners (Blu-ray) R
This is what love feels like.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 15, 2011
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Focus Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ewan McGregor, Mélanie Laurent & Christopher Plummer | |
Performer: | Goran Visnjic, Kai Lennox & Mary Page Keller | |
Directed by | Mike Mills | |
Screenwriting by | Mike Mills | |
Composition by | Roger Neill & Brian Reitzell |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Beginners is perceptive, funny and moving.
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The Age (Australia)
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]his is a beautifully judged and genuinely affecting exploration of life's constant capacity to surprise.
Total Film
The result is a ton of laughter, tears, a surprising out-of-character performance by Goran Visnjic as Plummer's boyfriend, and an adorable canine with more personality than most people.
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Three Imaginary Girls
3 stars out of 5 -- It's certainly a fresh angle on generation-gap issues, and Plummer relishes his role with an eye-twinkle towards the Oscars.
Uncut
3 stars out of 4 -- Delicate business is being transacted in this touchingly personal and altogether extraordinary film....A never better Plummer is simply stupendous...
Rolling Stone
[Plummer] creates an inspiring, fully rounded man in late bloom, and McGregor responds with a performance to match. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Plummer is gruffly wonderful here, hardly a surprise, a given that he's long been a great -- and sometimes unsung -- actor.
Movieline
Product Description:
Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is an illustrator with a history of failed relationships. Growing up, he spent much of his time with his eccentric mother, Georgia (Mary Page Keller), while his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer), supported the arts as the curator of a local museum. Though Oliver's parents never divorced, as a young boy he always sensed a distance between them -- a distance, Oliver discovers following his mother's death years later, that resulted from the fact that his father had lived most of his life as a closeted homosexual. With his wife gone and his son grown up, 75-year-old Hal decides to finally embrace his sexuality and takes a young boyfriend (Goran Visnjic). When Hal's health takes a turn for the worse, Oliver steps up to care for him while recalling quiet conversations and eventful trips to the museum with his unpredictable mother -- a dyed-in-the-wool eccentric. Gradually, Oliver begins to see his father in a whole new light. Later, Oliver falls for pretty French actress Anna (Mélanie Laurent) after a chance meeting at a costume party. The more intimate Oliver and Anna become, the more they both realize they share one defining character flaw -- the moment any relationship turns serious, they run away. For Oliver it means shutting himself in and obsessing over his work; for Anna it's as easy as checking into another empty hotel room in yet another strange city -- one of the perks, as it were, of having an itinerant job. After moving in together, the dysfunctional couple realizes that overcoming their hard-wired relationship issues is more difficult than either of them expected.