Lady Bird premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2017 and was released in the United States on November 3, 2017 by A24. Gerwig's screenplay, direction, and Ronan and Metcalf's performances were praised, and it has grossed over $68 million on a $10 million budget.
Lady Bird was chosen by the National Board of Review, the American Film Institute, and Time as one of the top 10 films of the year. At the 90th Academy Awards, it earned five nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress for Ronan, Best Supporting Actress for Metcalf, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. At the 75th Golden Globe Awards, Lady Bird won for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Ronan), and was nominated for two more. It was also nominated for three British Academy Film Awards.
Plot
Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson is a senior student at a Catholic high school in Sacramento, California in the year 2002. She longs to attend an Ivy League college in "a city with culture". Her family is struggling financially, and her mother tells her Lady Bird is ungrateful for what she has.Lady Bird and her best friend Julie join their school theatre program, where Lady Bird meets a boy called Danny O'Neill. They develop a romantic relationship, and, to her mother's disappointment, Lady Bird joins Danny's family for Thanksgiving dinner. Their relationship ends when Lady Bird discovers Danny kissing a boy in a bathroom stall.
At the behest of her mother, Lady Bird takes a job at a coffee shop, where she meets a young musician, Kyle. He and Lady Bird begin a romantic relationship, and she and Julie drift apart. After Jenna, one of the popular girls at the school, is reprimanded by a teacher, Sister Sarah, for wearing a short skirt, Lady Bird suggests the two bond by vandalizing the Sister's car. Lady Bird gives Danny's grandmother's home as her address to appear wealthy.
Lady Bird drops out of the theatre program. At the coffee shop, she consoles Danny after he expresses his struggle to come out. After Kyle tells her he is a virgin, she loses her virginity to him, but he later denies saying this. Jenna discovers that Lady Bird lied about her address. Lady Bird discovers that her father has lost his job and has been battling depression for most of his life.
Lady Bird begins applying to east-coast colleges, despite her mother's insistence that the family cannot afford it. She is elated to discover that she has been placed on the wait list for a New York college. She sets out for her high school prom with Kyle, Jenna, and Jenna’s boyfriend, but the four decide to go to a party instead. Lady Bird asks them to drop her off at Julie's apartment, where the two rekindle their friendship and go to the prom together.
After Lady Bird's graduation, her mother accidentally discovers that she has applied to out-of-state universities behind her back, and stops talking to her for the rest of the summer. On her eighteenth birthday, her father shares a cupcake with her and jokes that he and her mother are not getting a divorce because they cannot afford it. To celebrate reaching legal age, Lady Bird buys a pack of cigarettes, a scratch-off ticket, and an issue of Playgirl. She passes her driving test and redecorates her bedroom. Lady Bird learns she has been accepted to the New York college, and can afford the tuition with financial aid and her father's help. Her mother refuses to see her off at the airport; she has a change of heart and drives back in to the airport, but Lady Bird has already left.
In New York, Lady Bird finds thoughtful letters written by her mother and salvaged by her father, and begins using her birth name again. She is hospitalized after drinking heavily at a party. After leaving the hospital, she attends Mass, then calls home and leaves an apologetic voicemail message for her mother.
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