Genre: Drama/Comedy/Romance
Director: Greta Gerwig
Writer: Alex Conn
Cast: Lucas Hedges, Kaitlyn Dever, RJ Cyler, Laurie Metcalfe, Tracy Letts, Bruce Dern
Plot: The film is set in suburban Westchester, NY, and it opens with a theatre club meeting with all the kids in the attendance and the theatre director is explaining the plot of Les Miserables which is the play the theatre club and the theatre director chastises a young couple for making out this couple is Theodore (Lucas Hedges) and Jenna (Kaitlyn Dever).
The film cuts to Theodore and Jenna in the forest making out and after they make out Theodore reveals his has applied to Julliard and tries to convince Jenna to apply but Jenna explains that she has other plans and Theodore keeps pressing and pressing and she finally admits that she doubts her parents would let her do so. Theodore encourages her to at least try.
During dinner right after the dinner prayer Jenna reveals to her mom (Laurie Metcalfe) and dad (Tracy Letts) who are a nurse and small businessman respectively. Jenna reveals that her parents and Jenna’s fathers parents came from nothing and they are not going to let her embarrass the family and throw away the family for future generations. Jenna goes to her room
Theodore is meeting a boy named John (RJ Cyler) for lunch. John is another really talented actor. John is openly gay and comes from the richest family in the town asks Theodore on a date and he says he has a girlfriend in Jenna. John still says he wants to be friends.
Jenna then talks to Mr. Snow (Bruce Dern) about her predicament with her mother and Mr. Snow explains his story as an actor playing in Off Broadway productions and how when his girlfriend had an unwanted pregnancy he deciding to get his Teaching degree.
Jenna makes a deal with her parents that they would pay for drama school if she got nominated for a Metro which is a student award. The parents accept.
The auditions for Les Miserables is on. We see a bunch of really terrible auditions including a kid dressed up in a Madea costume singing a song.
The play is finally in rehearsals. Jenna asks a question to Theodore he give her acting lessons to ensure she gets nominated for a Metro. Jenna offers payment but John says he’ll do it for free.
The first lesson happens in the bedroom. John and the film turns into a montage of their lessons and the happiness.
The montage ends and Jenna and Theodore are talking. They both have bedhead. They are discussing acting and acting techniques and method acting.
The play is finally on and everyone is getting ready and there’s a Friday night show and a Saturday morning and night show. The Friday night and Saturday morning shows go great. All of the actors eat chicken fingers and fries and play an improv game and then the seniors go up and say speeches about how theatre group has changed their lives and good memories. Theodore thanks theatre group for meeting his lovely girlfriend Jenna and everyone claps in Jenna’s direction. Then Jenna is the last one to say her speech and she is nervous and she admits some of her issues and says this play is the key to the future and everyone claps.
The show goes on and is going well until a song in Act 2 where everything goes wrong and she starts crying and everything this is cause she noticed both the Metro guy and her mom in the audience. The rest of the show goes fine.
It is 2 weeks later and Jenna is watching the Metro stream and her name is not mentioned in any of the categories. Theodore texts Jenna about this and tries to convince her to not give up on her dream but her mom won’t pay for drama school.
We then cut to Theodore and John and Theodore and John start talking to each Other on what they should do to help Jenna. John offers a wildcard idea on asking his rich parents to contribute to Jenna.
We then cut to John having lunch with his dad and offering up the idea of giving Jenna the money she needs to pay for Julliard as her parents aren’t supportive. His dad is initially resistant but eventually supports the idea.
Theodore then texts Jenna about the idea. Jenna is thinking about it and she brings it up over dinner which leads to a screaming match over dinner. Jenna then leaves and goes to Theodore’s house. Theodore’s mom accepts the idea.
Back at Jenna’s parents her parents argue about it and her mom cries as her daughter is 18 and can technically leave if she wants.
John and Theodore are talking and John is debating how to finally come out as bisexual to Jenna.
Theodore goes to the guest room and finally comes out to Jenna and she accepts him for who he is.
Jenna the next day is accepted for an audition at Julliard and at the same time her mother shows up at the house and says she accepts she’s an adult but she wants her to come home. She eventually comes home.
Theodore drives Jenna to the audition and she is waiting for them to call her.
The film ends with an audition that Jenna gives to Julliard and it ends ambiguously on whether she gets in or not.
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