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20th Century Women
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Writer-director Mike Mills, whose film about his father coming out at 70 garnered an Oscar for Christopher Plummer, has now made a film inspired by his mother. The central character in 20th Century Women is 55-year-old Dorothea (Annette Bening), single mother of 15-year-old Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann).
They live in a gloriously dilapidated old mansion, which one of their two boarders, William (Billy Crudup), is helping Dorothea to renovate, or at least keep habitable. Their other...