Exciting news out of Cannes: Mike Mills (“Beginners”) has found a cast for his upcoming Annapurna Pictures’ movie “20th Century Women.” Producer Megan Ellison’s company announced today that Greta Gerwig, Annette Bening, and Elle Fanning have all joined the cast.
Mills wrote the picture and will direct. Set in Santa Barbara during the summer of 1979, “20th Century Women” tells the story of Dorothea Fields, a mother who’s trying her best to raise her teenage son, Jamie. Navigating life and love, sex and freedom, men and women isn’t easy as Dorothea looks for answers from two other remarkable women in her life. Each from a different era of the 20th Century, these three women seek to find what it means to be a man and help set Jamie on the right course. Filled with punk-rock verve, 20TH CENTURY WOMEN takes a humorous and heartfelt look at how we figure out who we are.
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