“‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,’ deserved a good film version, and writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig captures Judy Blume’s humane wit and spirit, while adding some new emotional and narrative wrinkles,” writes Tribune critic phillipstribune.
Kathy Bates, left, as Sylvia Simon and Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret Simon in"Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret."
No spoilers, but: The depth of feeling in this scene, conveyed by these two, isn’t what you find in most commercial movies, certainly not most coming-of-age films, and certainly not most coming-of-age films made in America. Watching Fortson go through every push-pull and emotional swerve as 12-year-old Margaret, with McAdams unerring in the newly expanded role of her mother, Barbara, is a privilege and a pleasure.Blume’s novel threw millions of real-life Margarets a lifeline.
Filmmaker Craig remembers how it was, and is. She respects the not-knowing or extreme-humiliation parts of any budding adolescent’s years, nailing the moments of wry comedy as well as the sudden, piercing dives into anger, or anguish, and back out again. The time period stays in 1970, gently but firmly, with a few tin-ear moments but only a few.
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