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Margaret

2011 · 2h 30m · R Drama
Directed by Kenneth Lonergan

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Overview

17-year-old Lisa feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in causing a traffic accident that claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right, she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and, most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course with the realities and compromises of the adult world.

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74%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Even in its truncated state, this is pretty gripping stuff.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Ambitious, affecting, unwieldy and haunting, it's an eccentric, densely atmospheric, morally hyper-aware masterpiece...

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Fresh

It's a passionate, fascinating mess, like its abrasive main character.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh

Messy but masterful; a sprawling portrait of what it means to be a bright young woman who's realizing that the world isn't the warm bath of acceptance that her privileged life would indicate.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh

Margaret comes apart at the seams as you watch it, but it gives off a lovely light. Seek it out. You can thank me later.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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