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GenreComedy & Drama
RatedR
Runtime1 hr 34 mins
ReleasedNovember 3, 2017
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorGreta Gerwig
StarringSaoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts
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Lady Bird (2017)
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| Lady Bird's Details | |
| Genre | Comedy & Drama |
| Rated | R |
| Released | 09/01/2017 (Telluride); 11/03/2017 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 34 mins |
| Budget | $10M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Lady Bird's Interests | |
| General | Sacramento, college applications, thrift store dresses, school musicals, arguments in the car. |
| Music | Jon Brion. Plus Dave Matthews Band's 'Crash Into Me' gets a big moment. |
| Movies | Little Women (2019). Gerwig and Ronan reunite, and Chalamet tags along. |
| Television | Gilmore Girls. Mothers and daughters, faster talking, fewer car doors. |
| Heroes | Sister Sarah Joan (Lois Smith). The coolest nun in Sacramento. |
| Lady Bird's Crew | |
| Director | Greta Gerwig |
| Writers | Greta Gerwig |
| Producers | Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Evelyn O'Neill |
| Cinematography | Sam Levy |
| Music | Jon Brion |
| Edited By | Nick Houy |
| Production | Scott Rudin Productions, Management 360, IAC Films |
| Distributed By | A24 (United States and Canada), Focus Features (International; through Universal Pictures) |
Every character in Lady Bird gets a soul except Kyle. Timothée Chalamet plays him as a too-cool band kid with big opinions and nothing underneath, and he feels like a joke the movie forgot to finish. Some scenes also end before they’ve had a chance to breathe, especially the quiet trouble her dad is going through. Saoirse Ronan plays Lady Bird as loud, wrong, funny and brave all at once, a kid who fibs about which house is hers and then feels terrible about it. Laurie Metcalf’s Marion is loving and exhausting in the same sentence. Their fight in a thrift store turns into a hunt for the perfect dress halfway through, and that’s the whole relationship in one scene. Beanie Feldstein’s Julie is the best friend everyone deserves. Critics gave it 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. An 8.9 because it gets a mother and daughter exactly right, even when it rushes the people around them. $4,327 says you drive past your old high school this month and slow down for no reason.
What works: Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf are perfect together, and the script nails how a mother and daughter can fight and love in the same breath.
What doesn’t: Kyle is more of a punchline than a person, and some side stories, like her dad’s quiet struggles, get rushed.
Who it’s for: Anyone who couldn’t wait to leave their hometown and then missed it the second they did.
Spoilers
Lady Bird secretly gets into a college in New York with her dad’s help, and her mom is so hurt she stops talking to her. At the airport, Marion drives off without saying goodbye, then circles back too late. In New York, Lady Bird starts going by Christine and leaves her mom a heartfelt voicemail.
Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) goes by Lady Bird, a name she picked for herself. It's 2002 in Sacramento, she's a senior at a Catholic high school, and she wants out, ideally to a college on the East Coast with some culture. Her mom Marion (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse pulling double shifts, thinks that's unrealistic and says so. The film opens with Lady Bird ending one of those arguments by rolling out of the moving car. Her dad Larry (Tracy Letts) is gentler. She has her best friend Julie (Beanie Feldstein), a part in the school musical, and big plans. Greta Gerwig writes and directs. Ninety-four minutes, call her Lady Bird.
Anyone from Sacramento who swore they'd leave. Call your mom.
Christine "Lady Bird" McPhersonphoto: Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
| Saoirse Ronan | Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson |
| Laurie Metcalf | Marion McPherson |
| Tracy Letts | Larry McPherson |
| Lucas Hedges | Daniel "Danny" O'Neill |
| Timothée Chalamet | Kyle Scheible |
| Beanie Feldstein | Julianne "Julie" Steffans |
| Lois Smith | Sister Sarah Joan |
| Stephen McKinley Henderson | Father Leviatch |
| Odeya Rush | Jenna Walton |
| Jordan Rodrigues | Miguel McPherson |
| Marielle Scott | Shelly Yuhan |
| Jake McDorman | Mr. Bruno |
| John Karna | Greg Anrue |
| Bayne Gibby | Casey Kelly |
| Laura Marano | Diana Greenway |
| Kristen Cloke | Ms Steffans |
| Andy Buckley | Matt |
| Kathryn Newton | Darlene Bell |
| Daniel Zovatto | Jonah Ruiz |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +400 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $79.4M; Domestic box office $49M; Opening weekend $364K; Profit / loss (est.) +$24.7M; Rotten Tomatoes 99%; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 99% (399 reviews); Metacritic 93 / 100; IMDb users 7.4 / 10 (370,239 votes); movie.guru score 9.2.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 17 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.