Poster and Trailer For Long-Awaited Margaret

Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret, a film that’s been on the shelf looking due to legal and editing hassles for six years, is finally seeing the light of day and to that end we have a pretty poster and a trailer that will make you feel the pain.
Margaret revolves around a 17-year-old New York City high-school student who feels that she has inadvertently played a role in an accident (pedestrian vs bus) that claimed a woman’s life. She meets opposition at every step in her attempts to make things right. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers (one of which she begins an affair with), and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world.
Lonergan made his directorial debut with the brilliant You Can Count on Me. He also wrote Gangs of New York so he should have a handle on multiple story lines and Margaret appears to have a lot of threads, as well as a lot of grief, pain and personal anguish. I’m quite certain there’s a lot more here than meets the eye in this trailer. It’s a shame a film with this much talent involved is quietly slinking into theaters. I think it’ll definitely be worth a look. If not in theaters, on dvd or VOD. The film stars a much younger Anna Paquin along with Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Olivia Thirlby, Kieran Culkin and Jean Reno.
Margaret opens in limited release in the US on September 30.
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