Eleven-year-old Margaret moves from the city to the suburbs and starts to contemplate everything about life, friendship and adolescence. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who offers loving ... Read allEleven-year-old Margaret moves from the city to the suburbs and starts to contemplate everything about life, friendship and adolescence. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who offers loving support, and her grandmother, Sylvia.Eleven-year-old Margaret moves from the city to the suburbs and starts to contemplate everything about life, friendship and adolescence. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who offers loving support, and her grandmother, Sylvia.
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Amari Alexis Price
- Janie Loomis
- (as Amari Price)
Katherine Mallen Kupferer
- Gretchen Potter
- (as Katherine Kupferer)
Landon S. Baxter
- Evan Wheeler
- (as Landon Baxter)
Olivia Williams
- Witch
- (as Olivia Frances Williams)
Mike Platarote Jr.
- Guy in Car
- (as Michael Platarote)
Zack Brooks
- Philip Leroy
- (as Zackary Brooks)
Jecobi Swain
- Freddy Barnett
- (as JeCobi Swain)
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- TriviaJudy Blume, the author of the source novel, has a walk-on role as a woman walking a dog.
- GoofsIn the synagogue, they are using the (Conservative) Rabbinical Assembly's Siddur Lev Shalem prayer book. It was published in 2016. The cantor is a woman, but females weren't ordained as cantors until 1975 for Reform and 1987 for Conservative.
- Quotes
Margaret: I immediately wanted to take it off.
Barbara Simon: Yeah. Welcome to womanhood.
- Crazy creditsFans of "The Simpsons" especially will note the Gracie Films logo at the beginning of the film, used at the end of episodes of the aforementioned television show. Gracie Films is an American film and television production company, founded by James L. Brooks in 1986 and named for comedian Gracie Allen, formerly wife and professional partner of George Burns. James Brooks is also a producer of the film. Among other shows and movies, Gracie Films is responsible for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970-77), "Jerry McGuire" (1996), and "As Good as it Gets" (1997).
- Alternate versionsThe version of the film shown at advanced screenings featured a "Margaret Moments" segment prior to the film playing, which features women recounting their memories which are relatable to the characters/situations of the original book. Marge Simpson appears during this segment, likely because James L. Brooks/Gracie Films produced the film.
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Written by Joe South
Performed by Paul Revere & The Raiders
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Featured review
As perfect an adaptation as you could want.
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, the film adaptation of Judy Bloom's 1970 blockbuster coming-of-age novel, is a quiet buster all its own. Rarely has cinema captured an 11-year-old marching toward puberty with such grace and dignity. In the film's road to maturation, three generations of women will face change just as child/teen Margaret does. Abby Ryder Fortson plays Margaret with a realism that looks as if she were always Margaret.
Margaret is moving from a robust neighborhood in 1970's NYC to dreaded suburban New Jersey carrying a disdain she and her Grandmother, Sylvia (Kathy Bates), evidence with some of the film's best lines. Margaret is not rabid in her criticism of the move, just grumpy and negative. To her interlocutor, God, she pleas, "Don't let Jersey be too awful."
For any youth who has been forced to move from a lively life and friends, this segment will have them chuckling as they remember how they tortured parents when disapproving something done for a better family life and dad's promotion. No pleasing a pre-teen most times anyhow.
Much of the film's energy comes from Margaret and her friends navigating the emergence of boys in their lives and the much-anticipated period. This monumental occurrence is welcomed with great fanfare. The girls' embracing emerging busts is encouraged with a lyric that invokes the life marker and prods it along: "We must, we must, we must increase our bust."
Every other possible pre-adolescent moment in young girls' journey through sixth grade to junior high seems to be covered, and probably was in Judy Bloom's book of the same name. Less physical but no less as powerful is her nascent religiosity confronting her roots in Judaism (father) and Christianity (mother and grandmother).
The cause of the split with her maternal grandparents over her mother marrying a Jew has the potential to bring the family together. However, it will be a long haul for an impatient child/teen who wants family unity almost as much as a period and bigger bust. Her interlocuter, both in person and voiceover, is a God she's not certain is real. Talk about demanding issues for a child/teen!
As in life, not all girls are mean and not all teachers inept; everybody's just trying to get through. If the girls seem to be wishing their life away, they are, but their tender moments of love and friendship promise that humanity will be served.
Writer/director Kelly Fromon Craig's Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret should be required viewing for anyone mixing it up with different cultures or anyone wanting to experience a pitch-perfect adaptation of a seminal work of art.
Margaret is moving from a robust neighborhood in 1970's NYC to dreaded suburban New Jersey carrying a disdain she and her Grandmother, Sylvia (Kathy Bates), evidence with some of the film's best lines. Margaret is not rabid in her criticism of the move, just grumpy and negative. To her interlocutor, God, she pleas, "Don't let Jersey be too awful."
For any youth who has been forced to move from a lively life and friends, this segment will have them chuckling as they remember how they tortured parents when disapproving something done for a better family life and dad's promotion. No pleasing a pre-teen most times anyhow.
Much of the film's energy comes from Margaret and her friends navigating the emergence of boys in their lives and the much-anticipated period. This monumental occurrence is welcomed with great fanfare. The girls' embracing emerging busts is encouraged with a lyric that invokes the life marker and prods it along: "We must, we must, we must increase our bust."
Every other possible pre-adolescent moment in young girls' journey through sixth grade to junior high seems to be covered, and probably was in Judy Bloom's book of the same name. Less physical but no less as powerful is her nascent religiosity confronting her roots in Judaism (father) and Christianity (mother and grandmother).
The cause of the split with her maternal grandparents over her mother marrying a Jew has the potential to bring the family together. However, it will be a long haul for an impatient child/teen who wants family unity almost as much as a period and bigger bust. Her interlocuter, both in person and voiceover, is a God she's not certain is real. Talk about demanding issues for a child/teen!
As in life, not all girls are mean and not all teachers inept; everybody's just trying to get through. If the girls seem to be wishing their life away, they are, but their tender moments of love and friendship promise that humanity will be served.
Writer/director Kelly Fromon Craig's Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret should be required viewing for anyone mixing it up with different cultures or anyone wanting to experience a pitch-perfect adaptation of a seminal work of art.
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- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $20,372,406
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,739,037
- Apr 30, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $21,464,043
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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