Monday Night Film Series presents ARE YOU THERE GOD IT'S ME MARGARET -FR

Event date(s): October 16, 2023
Time(s): 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Category: Fredericton
Location: Fredericton

The Monday Night Film Series presents ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET on Monday Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Tilley Hall, room 102.

When Margaret’s family relocates, she not only has to contend with a new life, but also new friends and new changes to her body. Based on the bestselling novel from Judy Blume, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. tells the seemingly universal story of what it means to grow up and find out who you are and what you believe in.

After moving to New Jersey because of her Dad’s (Benny Safdie) new job, Margaret meets a new group of friends who are asking questions she hasn’t even heard of: What bra size are you? Have you got your period yet? What boys do you like? Coming from a half-Jewish and half-Christian family, yet raised atheist, Margaret starts asking her father and mother (Rachel McAdams) about these big existential questions. Questioning her faith and identity, she visits her grandma (Kathy Bates) and attends Temple, but that doesn’t quite fit. One of her friends takes her to Church, but that doesn’t feel right either. While it seems like every other kid has their identity figured out, Margaret feels stuck in the middle, unable to grow up until she answers these questions definitively.

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret won the Truly Moving Picture Award at the Heartland Festival, and there couldn’t be a better prize to encapsulate the film. Not only will fans of the now 50-year old book find this adaptation faithful, but it will also speak to today’s adolescents who will see themselves accurately depicted on screen. Poised as one of the best coming-of-age book adaptations to date (with a Rotten Tomato score of 99%), Margaret is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.

“The director-writer Kelly Fremon Craig’s rendering of the book about puberty, family and nascent spirituality offers lessons in how a cherished object, when treated with tender and thoughtful regard, needn’t turn precious. It doesn’t hurt that Craig and the producer James L. Brooks assembled a cast that delivers the joys and blunders waiting at the edge of childhood but also touches on the pangs of other kinds of growing up.”

–The New York Times (Critic’s Pick)

This year, 30 limited release, independent foreign & Canadian films will be shown. Admission is $10/film, but a yearly film society membership reduces admission cost to $7/film. The series is open to all. Memberships are available at Tilley 102 every Monday night.

For further info, contact NB Film Co-op at:

Phone:(506) 455-1632

Email: info@nbfilmcoop.com

Website: https://www.nbfilmcoop.com/monday-night-film-series

The NB Film Co-op in partnership with the UNB Faculty of Arts and the Toronto Film Festival presents the series.

Building: Tilley Hall

Room Number: Room 102