Lady Bird is a comedy drama written and directed by Greta Gerwig. Just by the title alone, I thought this was a movie about the wife of LBJ, whose name was Claudia Alta Johnson but was affectionately nicknamed Lady Bird by her nursemaid because she thought Claudia was as “purty as a ladybird”. To my surprise, Lady Bird is as far from a story about a president or his wife as a story can get. Instead it is a story about a typical high-school senior and her turbulent relationship with her mother.
Lady Bird is set in Sacramento, California in 2002-03 and tells the story of Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) who is a senior student at a Catholic high school and is looking to some day attend an ivy league college in a city with lots of culture. The problem is, her family is financially strapped…
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