Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

  • Released: 2023-04-27
  • Runtime: 106 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Stars: Kamryn Phillips, Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Benny Safdie, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Elle Graham, Ethan McDowell, Mia Dillon, JeCobi Swain, Gary Houston, Aidan Wojtak-Hissong, Sloane Warren, Amari Alexis Price, Simms May, Landon S. Baxter, Samantha LeBrocq, Natalie Maguire, Francesca Black, Jane Klecker
  • Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
 Comments
  • harshu-87551 - 25 April 2024
    Are You a Saviour God?or Just a Friend of Mine in Lonely Times?
    It is not a review, it is my experience so there can be unrelated points here, so if you want crisp pros and cons, don't waste your time.

    Some points to note before diving in: 1. I am a teenage boy.

    2. I am an atheist (or at least somewhat similar to it).

    So I started this movie with an outline that it will have some jokes and awkward situation about the coming of age and since I wanted to know about the female side's companionship with these changes, I dived in. Did I know their experience? I don't know, is one movie, approximately two hours enough? Anyways, what I liked was the frankness and how it merged into the bigger picture.

    It has handled the religion issue quite well. The way Margaret keeps talking to God, one-way, and decided there is no god and eventually makes a truce with God is heartwarming. But the point is that this movie had a truth, an omnipresent truth that we fail to see every day, all the religions are same, they teach the same, and they do the same yet we fight over them.

    Let me ask a straightforward question, if there is a god up there or many gods up there, do they fight or live in harmony? Wait, what do you think, do they live together or do the mystical creatures have drawn boundaries like us? (It is not a rhetorical question). As I had told earlier, I am an atheist and I don't exactly believe in god, I believe whatever there is, is nature itself and we don't need to worship it but we need to learn to live in peace with it. Nature is our nourisher and we don't need a temple or church or mosque or anything at all to please it, we need to stop destroying it.

    Overall, this movie has raised two thoughts in my mind, first (this is a silly one) how difficult can it be to manage a period? And second, is God really the saviour, we believe it to be? Or it is just an idea humans developed to support themselves with the warmth of hope in the coldness of loneliness and difficulties (I guess the latter fits for me, you choose your pick).
  • sage4676 - 13 January 2024
    fun and very prop accurate
    This is fun film that isn't easy for 60 year olld man, like myself, to closely identify with. However my age closely identified with the scene where the girls are talking about the needs to have a 'bra'. I do recall when girls staterted to mature and did eventually need that type of undergarment. The best part about that scene is they are sitting around a table and the 'sodas' or 'pop' containers were 'TAB' or' Fresca' brand names. Yes, I am of the age to recall those brands and I personally enjoyed the Fresca brand and would love to see those come back. All in all, the movie is fun and entertaining.