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With: Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Benny Safdie, Elle Graham, Amari Alexis Price, Katherine Kupferer, Kate MacCluggage, Aidan Wojtak-Hissong, Landon S. Baxter, Echo Kellum, Zackary Brooks, Isol Young, Simms May, Mia Dillon, Gary Houston
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Written by: Kelly Fremon Craig, based on a novel by Judy Blume
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Directed by: Kelly Fremon Craig
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic material involving sexual education and some suggestive material
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Running Time: 106
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Date: 04/28/2023
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023)
Blume County
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
This solid, snappy movie is an adaptation of a 1970 Judy Blume book I never read. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. perhaps could not have been made before now, openly discussing, as it does, young women's menstruation. Pre-teen Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) is forced to move from New York to New Jersey, becomes obsessed about getting her first period (there's a "contest" with three other girls), grappling with her choice of faith, and occasionally speaking to God. Kathy Bates is a standout as Margaret's grandmother, as is Rachel McAdams as Margaret's frenzied mother. Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen) was inarguably the right choice to adapt and direct.
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