From Book to Film 2024: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (2023)
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig Run Time: 105 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2022
Starring: Abby Ryder Fortson, Benny Safdie, Kathy Bates, Rachel McAdams, Wilbur Fitzgerald
Country: United States
Language: English
From Book to Film at Gateway Film Center
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The beloved and best-selling 1970 novel by Judy Blume comes to the big screen! This timeless, coming-of-age story has transcended decades and spoken to generations.
“a sweet, playful and reverential adaptation of Judy Blume’s famed coming-of-age novel about the everyday problems of an 11-year-old girl.”
-Lindsey Bahr, APNews
At 11, Margaret is moving to a new town and beginning to contemplate everything about life, friendship, and adolescence. She relies on her mother, who offers loving support but is herself finding her own footing in a new place, and her grandmother Sylvia, who is coming to terms with finding happiness in the next phase of her life. For all three, questions of identity, one’s place in the world, and what brings meaning to a life will draw them closer together than ever before.
About the filmmaker:
Kelly Fremon Craig is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, known for writing and directing the film adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (2023). She made her directorial debut with the feature film The Edge of Seventeen (2016), which premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and received widespread critical praise and numerous accolades, including a Directors Guild of America Nomination for Outstanding Achievement of a First Time Filmmaker. She graduated from UC Irvine with a degree in English Literature. She started writing sketch comedy and spoken word poetry in college before pursuing screenwriting.
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