Beginners (2010)

	Directed by: Mike Mills	COUNTRY USA GENRE Drama/Comedy NORWEGIAN TITLE Beginners RUNNING TIME 104 minutes
	Produced by: Leslie Urdang Lars Knudsen Dean Vanech Jay Van Hoy Miranda de Pencier
	Written by: Mike Mills

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Oliver	Ewan McGregor
Hal	Christopher Plummer	½
Anna	Mélanie Laurent	½
Andy	Goran Visnjic	½
Elliot	Kai Lennox
Georgia	Mary Page Keller
Young Oliver	Keegan Boos

Review

I'm sure it could have been interesting to explore Christopher Plummer's character and his relationship with his son (played by Ewan McGregor), who is chosen as the focal point of this story, looking back at his genealogy. That is, had Beginners not been directed with such sloppiness by Mike Mills (Thumbsucker). The film has an occasional clairvoyance, but most of the effect is wasted on a flat and cutesified romance and Mills' self-inflicted indie prison. In the end, not much works the way it should with Beginners, and Plummer's promising character is never fulfilled or given the fertilizer to grow into a performance worthy of the Oscar he won for the part.