The film has been widely praised by critics, and was chosen by the , the , and magazine as one of the 10 best films of the year. At the , it earned five nominations: , for Ronan , for Metcalf , , and. At the , Lady Bird won two awards— and for Ronan —and was nominated for two more. It was also nominated for three. Her family is struggling financially, and her mother tells her that Lady Bird is ungrateful for what she has. Lady Bird and her best friend Julie join their school theater program, where Lady Bird meets Danny O'Neill. She and Danny develop a romantic relationship, and she has dinner with Danny's wealthy family instead of her own, disappointing her mother. Their relationship ends when Lady Bird discovers Danny kissing a boy in a bathroom stall. At the behest of her mother, Lady Bird takes a job at a coffee shop, where she meets Kyle, a young musician she recognizes from a show the previous semester. One of the popular girls at the school, Jenna, is reprimanded by a nun for wearing a short skirt, and Lady Bird suggests that she and Jenna bond by vandalizing the nun's car. As Lady Bird grows closer to Kyle and Jenna, she gradually deserts Julie. Lady Bird drops out of the theater program. At the coffee shop, she consoles Danny after he expresses his struggle in , and they become friends again. After Kyle tells Lady Bird he is a virgin, she loses her virginity to him, but he later denies having said it. This leaves her unfulfilled, and contributes to their breakup. Jenna unintentionally visits Danny's grandmother's house, which, to appear wealthy, Lady Bird had claimed was her own. Lady Bird admits to the lie; Jenna agrees to forgive her because of their mutual friendship with Kyle but makes it clear that they are no longer friends. Lady Bird discovers that her father has lost his job and has been battling depression for years. Lady Bird begins applying to colleges despite her mother's insistence that the family cannot afford it. She is accepted into but is upset because she feels it is too close to home. She subsequently learns that she has been placed on the wait list for a New York college but does not share the news with her mother, fearing her response. Lady Bird changes her mind during the car ride and asks them to drop her off at Julie's apartment, where the two rekindle their friendship and go to prom together. After Lady Bird's graduation, Danny accidentally reveals to Lady Bird's mother that she has been wait-listed, and her mother stops talking to her for the rest of the summer. On her 18th birthday, Lady Bird's father shares a cupcake with her. To celebrate reaching legal adulthood, Lady Bird buys a pack of cigarettes, a , and an issue of magazine. She passes her driving test, and repaints her bedroom. Lady Bird learns she has been accepted by the New York college, and can afford the tuition with and her father's help. Her parents take her to the airport, but her mother refuses to go inside to say goodbye. She has a change of heart and drives back, only to discover Lady Bird had already crossed security. Upon arriving in New York, Lady Bird finds several thoughtful letters in her luggage; her mother had written and discarded them, but her father had salvaged them. She begins using her birth name again. She is hospitalized after drinking heavily at a party. After leaving the hospital, she visits a Presbyterian Church during a service then calls home and leaves an apologetic voicemail for her mother. At one point it was over 350 pages long, and had the working title Mothers and Daughters. In 2015, Gerwig and her team secured financing from IAC Films, who produced the film alongside. Gerwig's manager Evelyn O'Neill also served as a producer. To prepare the cast and crew, Gerwig gave them her old high-school yearbooks, photos, and journals, as well as passages written by , and took them on a tour of her hometown. Casting In September 2015, Gerwig met with at the , where they were promoting and respectively. They ran through the script in a hotel room, with Ronan reading the part of Lady Bird, and Gerwig reading the other characters. Gerwig realized by page 2 that Ronan was the right choice for the lead. In January 2016, Ronan was cast. Gerwig met with and offered him his choice from the male parts. Gerwig cast after seeing her theater work; the rest of the cast—including , , , and —was announced in September 2016. Filming was scheduled to begin in March 2016, but was delayed to August due to Ronan's commitments to a performance of Arthur Miller's. Filming began on August 30, 2016 in Sacramento, California. Other locations included and. Gerwig had wanted to shoot the movie on film stock, but due to budget constraints ultimately shot on the Mini. The final film emphasizes digital noise to create the effect of a copy of a photograph. Gerwig, using a technique she learned from the filmmaker , arrived an hour before everyone else to put the actors and crew at ease by knowing exactly how the day would run. She also banned smartphones on the set, a policy borrowed from. In July 2017, A24 acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2017, and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2017, and the on October 8, 2017. It was released theatrically in the United States on November 3, 2017, in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2018, and in Ireland on February 23, 2018. It had the second best theater average of 2017, and the highest ever for a film in limited release directed by a woman. Critical response Lady Bird received a standing ovation at its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was praised for Ronan and Metcalf's performances, and Gerwig's direction. On , the film has an approval rating of 99% based on 316 reviews, with an average rating of 8. It until 196 registered reviews. Every line sounds like something a person might actually say, which means that the movie is also exceptionally well acted. He also declared it as one of the year's best films. This is what greatness looks like. This was based on the difference in aggregated scores given to it by critics and collated by compared to the scores given to it by the public on the website. Accolades Main article: Lady Bird garnered a variety of awards and nominations. The film was chosen by the , the , and Time magazine as one of the top 10 films of 2017. 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