“As a filmmaker, I don’t really believe in objectivity or fiction or documentary,” “Beginners” director Mike Mills told indieWIRE yesterday afternoon. “All those categories I find are more ...

Playing an emotionally asphyxiated illustrator whose cancer-stricken dad comes out of the closet at age 75, Ewan McGregor looks positively yummy in Beginners, a gay-is-OK dramedy from the distributor ...

Co-starring Christopher Plummer and Melanie Laurent (of “Inglourious Basterds“), “Beginners” focuses on a young man (McGregor ) who is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father (Plummer): ...

The loss of a parent is a tragic twist of fate, but it’s made even more complicated when your 70-year-old father comes out of the closet around the same time. In his new film “Beginners,” Mills takes ...

When Mike Mills turns to filmmaking, he turns to drama in a search for ownership of self. As in his first film, Thumbsuckers, and his newest, Beginners, identity is key.

Playing an emotionally asphyxiated illustrator whose cancer-stricken dad comes out of the closet at age 75, Ewan McGregor looks positively yummy in Beginners, a gay-is-OK dramedy from the distributor ...