Beginners (2010) on Netflix
Oliver Fields is grieving his father Hal, who came out at 75 and later died of cancer. At a costume party he meets Anna, a French actress with laryngitis who writes notes.
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Plot summary
Los Angeles, 2003. Oliver Fields, 38, is a graphic designer whose father Hal died of lung cancer. Hal had come out to him at 75, six months after the death of Georgia, his wife of 44 years, and lived openly as a gay man, in love with Andy, a much younger man. Oliver has only Arthur, Hal's Jack Russell terrier. His work friends get him to a costume party, where he meets Anna, a French actress who has laryngitis and writes notes. She leaves for an audition in New York but says she wants to see him again.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Beginners (2010)
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- Writer-director Mike Mills drew on his own experience for Beginners: his father came out of the closet after the death of Mills' mother, and that family history inspired the film.
