20th Century Women

NAME OF FILM: 20TH CENTURY WOMEN

DIRECTOR(S): Mike Mills

STARRING: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup and Lucas Jade Zumann

GENRE: Comedy Film

SYNOPSIS: Set in Santa Barbara, the film follows Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening), a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie (newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann, in a breakout performance), at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women in Jamie’s upbringing — via Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields’ home, and Julie (Elle Fanning), a savvy and provocative teenage neighbor.