MARGARET
Written and Directed by Kenneth Lonergan Starring Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo and Alison Janney Lisa Cohen: I just need to talk to somebody who doesn’t completely misunderstand who I am or what’s going on inside me. It isn’t easy growing up, no matter who you are and no matter what you have to live through while you’re doing it. Take Lisa Cohen (Anna Paquin) for instance. She is a 17-year-old girl living on the Upper West Side in New York City. She goes to a private school and comes from a broken home. Her pre-occupations are not unlike any other girl’s her age - she bickers with her family, she wants to lose her virginity, she has opinions about worldly subjects she is only beginning to understand. And she is only just realizing that it is up to her to make sense of her own world when she inadvertently causes a fatal traffic accident. Suddenly, the world makes even less sense than it did just moments earlier. MARGARET is writer/director, Kenneth Lonergan’s highly anticipate...