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{{short description|2016 film by Mike Mills}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = 20th Century Women
| image = 20th Century Women.png
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Mike Mills (director)|Mike Mills]]
| writer = Mike Mills
| producers = {{Plainlist|
* [[Megan Ellison]]
* [[Anne Carey]]
* [[Youree Henley]]
}}
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Annette Bening]]
* [[Elle Fanning]]
* [[Greta Gerwig]]
* [[Lucas Jade Zumann]]
* [[Billy Crudup]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Sean Porter (cinematographer)|Sean Porter]]
| editing = [[Leslie Jones (film editor)|Leslie Jones]]
| music = [[Roger Neill]]
| production_companies = {{Plainlist|
* [[Annapurna Pictures]]
* Modern People
* Archer Gray
}}
| distributor = [[A24]]
| released = {{Film date|2016|10|08|[[2016 New York Film Festival|New York Film Festival]]|2016|12|28|United States}}
| runtime = 118 minutes<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/20th-century-women-film | title=''20th Century Women'' (15) | publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | date=November 7, 2016 | access-date=November 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109021528/https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/20th-century-women-film |archive-date=November 9, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2016/films/20th-century-women/|title=20th Century Women|publisher=[[Film Society of Lincoln Center]]|access-date=August 23, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010124537/http://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2016/films/20th-century-women/|archive-date=October 10, 2016}}</ref>
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $7 million<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/20th-century-women-director-pre-rehearsal-dance-parties-a-blessing-a-buddhist-monk-960491|title='20th Century Women' Director on Pre-Rehearsal Dance Parties and a Blessing From a Buddhist Monk|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|first=Chris|last=Lee|date=January 9, 2017|access-date=January 9, 2017}}</ref>
| gross = $7.2 million<ref name="numbers">{{cite web |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/20th-Century-Women#tab=summary |title=20th Century Women (2016) |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |access-date=May 9, 2017}}</ref><ref name=BOM>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt4385888/|title=20th Century Women (2016)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=November 13, 2019}}</ref>
}}
'''''20th Century Women''''' is a 2016 American [[coming-of-age]] [[comedy-drama]] film written and directed by [[Mike Mills (director)|Mike Mills]] and starring [[Annette Bening]], [[Elle Fanning]], [[Greta Gerwig]], [[Lucas Jade Zumann]], and [[Billy Crudup]]. It is set in 1979 in [[Southern California]] and partly inspired by Mills's childhood.

The film was produced by [[Annapurna Pictures]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/01/annapurna-20th-century-women-mike-mills-1201351795/|title=Annapurna To Produce '20th Century Women' From 'Beginners' Helmer|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|first=Jen|last=Yamato|date=January 16, 2016|access-date=January 16, 2016}}</ref> It had its world premiere at the [[2016 New York Film Festival|New York Film Festival]] on October 8, 2016,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/07/mike-mills-20th-century-women-new-york-film-festival-centrepiece-1201793411/|title=Mike Mills' '20th Century Women' Selected As New York Film Fest Centerpiece|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Ali|last=Jafaar|date=July 27, 2016|access-date=July 27, 2016}}</ref> and was theatrically released by [[A24]] on December 28.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/20th-century-women-gets-a-932623|title='20th Century Women' Gets a Holiday Release|work=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Mia|last=Galuppo|date=September 26, 2016|access-date=September 27, 2016}}</ref> Critics responded favorably to the film, and it was nominated for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]] and [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical|Best Actress]] (Bening) at the [[74th Golden Globe Awards]], as well as [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] at the [[89th Academy Awards]].

==Plot==
In 1979, 15-year-old Jamie Fields lives in [[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]] with his 55-year-old single mother, Dorothea, and their two tenants: Abbie Porter, a 24-year-old photographer being treated for [[cervical cancer]], and William, a carpenter and mechanic. Jamie's best friend is 17-year-old Julie Hamlin, who often spends the night with Jamie, but chooses not to have sex with him because she believes it would destroy their friendship.

Concerned she is having trouble connecting with her son, Dorothea asks Abbie and Julie to help raise him, but Jamie responds to this news by running away to Los Angeles with some friends to attend a rock concert. When he gets back, Julie tells him she had unprotected sex and is worried she will get pregnant. Jamie accompanies Abbie to a doctor's appointment, where she learns she is cancer-free, but will likely be unable to have children, and he reads a magazine article about [[Pregnancy test|home pregnancy tests]]. He buys one for Julie, and it comes back negative. To thank Jamie for his support, Abbie makes him a [[mixtape]], and she begins to confide in him, such as about how she moved back home from New York after her cancer diagnosis, but her mother could not handle the fact that the cancer was caused by her use of [[Diethylstilbestrol|DES]], a fertility drug, while Abbie was in utero, so Abbie moved in with Dorothea.

One day, after seeing Julie sneak out Jamie’s window, Dorothea talks with her, and they end up discussing the fact that Dorothea has not had any real relationships since Jamie’s father left years earlier. Dorothea asks Abbie to show her "the modern world," so they go to a punk club, where William kisses Dorothea, but she rejects him due to his sexual relationship with Abbie. After Dorothea leaves, Abbie gets in a fight and William tells her he no longer wants to sleep with her. Abbie goes to talk to Jamie and, finding him in bed with Julie, says Julie is disempowering Jamie and tells the teens to not get stuck in Santa Barbara.

Later, Jamie asks Abbie to take him to the club, and he gets drunk and kisses a woman. Meanwhile, Dorothea teaches William how to pursue a relationship, as opposed to a one night stand. When Abbie tells Dorothea about Jaime's night, Dorothea is not upset, though she is wistful that, as his mother, she can never see what Jamie is like out in the world.

Abbie lends Jamie some books about [[Second-wave feminism|feminism]], and he finds them interesting, but Dorothea thinks they are too much for him and scolds Abbie. At a dinner party, Abbie says she is tired because she is menstruating, and, frustrated by the discomfort the word causes, she makes all of the men at the table say "[[menstruation]]". This inspires Julie to talk about her first period and her first sexual encounter, which ends the gathering.

Jamie tells Julie he no longer wants her to spend the night if she just wants to talk. Hurt, she suggests they take a road trip up the coast. At a hotel, Jamie says he loves Julie, but she says they are too close to have sex. They argue, and Julie accuses Jaime of being like "the other guys", so Jamie storms off. Julie calls Dorothea, but by the time she, Abbie, and William arrive, Jamie has returned. Dorothea tells Jamie that she asked Abbie and Julie for help because she wants Jaime to be happier than she is, and he says he thought they were doing fine already. The two make up and return to Santa Barbara on their own, and Dorothea talks openly about her feelings and dreams for the first time.

An [[epilogue]] reveals that Julie will go on [[Combined oral contraceptive pill|the pill]], attend [[New York University|NYU]], lose touch with Jamie and Dorothea, fall in love, move to Paris, and choose to never have children. Abbie will stay in Santa Barbara, get married, set up a photography studio in her garage, and successfully give birth to two sons. William will live with Dorothea for another year, move to [[Sedona]], open a pottery store, get married, get divorced, and remarry. Dorothea will meet a man in 1983 and stay with him until her death from [[Metastasis|metastatic]] [[lung cancer]] in 1999. Years after Dorothea's death, Jamie will get married and have a son, to whom he will try, unsuccessfully, to describe Dorothea.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|

* [[Annette Bening]] as Dorothea Fields
* [[Elle Fanning]] as Julie Hamlin
* [[Greta Gerwig]] as Abbie Porter
* [[Billy Crudup]] as William
* [[Lucas Jade Zumann]] as Jamie Fields
** Vitaly A. LeBeau as Young Jamie
* [[Alison Elliott]] as Julie's Mother
* [[Thea Gill]] as Abbie's Mother, Gail
* Olivia Hone as Julie's Sister
* [[Waleed Zuaiter]] as Charlie, Dorothea's coworker
* [[Curran Walters]] as Matt, a skateboarder who beats up Jaime
* [[Darrell Britt-Gibson]] as Julian, one of Abbie's acquaintances
* [[Alia Shawkat]] as Trish, one of Abbie's acquaintances
* Nathalie Love as Cindy, a woman who sleeps with William
* [[John Billingsley]] as Abbie's [[Obstetrics and gynaecology|OBGYN]], Dr. Jones
* [[Gareth Williams (actor)|Gareth Williams]] as Fire Chief
* Kai Lennox as Reporter/Abbie's Future Husband, Dave}}

==Production==
===Development===
While the character of Jamie reflects his own experiences,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/20th-century-women-mike-mills-interview/#poster|title='20th Century Women': Mike Mills on the Story's Response to 'Beginners', the Necessity of DIY Spaces|website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]]|first=Brian|last=Formo|date=December 20, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref> the characters of Dorothea and Abbie were inspired by Mills' mother and older sister, respectively, and he wrote the character of Julie based on the experiences of several of his friends.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2016/12/mike-mills-on-directing-20th-century-women.html|title=20th Century Women Director Mike Mills on Disliking Seinfeld, Giving Hugs on Set, and Looking for Truthiness|website=[[Vulture (blog)|Vulture]]|first=Kyle|last=Buchanan|date=December 28, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref> He said: "It felt like I was raised by my mom and sisters, so I was always appealing to women in the punk scene or women in my world. I always leaned to them to figure out my life as a straight white guy. So I wanted to make a movie about that."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/awards/mike-mills-20th-century-women-annette-bening-1201882075/|title=Mike Mills Digs Within Once More With '20th Century Women'|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=Kristopher|last=Tapley|date=October 7, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref> Mills has described the film as a "love letter" to the women who raised him,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/reviews/a41555/20th-century-women-mike-mills-interview/|title=Mike Mills' New Film Is a Love Letter to the Women in His Life|work=[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]|first=Ben|last=Dickinson|date=December 20, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref> and, although it is autobiographical, he also noted that it is fictionalized, explaining: "With all these characters, what guides me is the real person. Of course, I'm cinematizing real people, and you can never get them right or show all of their dimensions, but that's very much what my mom was like."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://creativescreenwriting.com/20th-century-women/|title="What guides me is the real person." Mike Mills on 20th Century Women|website=Creative Screenwriting|first=Christopher|last=McKittrick|date=January 19, 2017|access-date=January 19, 2017}}</ref> After finishing the script, Mills brought it to [[Annapurna Pictures]], who, liking Mills's previous film ''[[Beginners]]'', agreed to produce ''20th Century Women''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/interview-mike-mills-on-20th-century-women-memory-and-collaboration|title=Mike Mills on 20th Century Women, Memory, and Collaboration|website=[[Slant Magazine]]|first=Elise|last=Nakhnikian|date=December 20, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref>

===Casting===
In May 2015, [[Annette Bening]], [[Greta Gerwig]], and [[Elle Fanning]] joined the cast, with Bening set to play a single mother, Gerwig a young sophisticated photographer, and Fanning a provocative friend of the single mother's teenage son.<ref>{{cite news|last=McNary|first=Dave|title=Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning Join '20th Century Women'|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/annette-bening-greta-gerwig-elle-fanning-20th-century-women-1201496066/|access-date=August 4, 2015|work=Variety|date=May 14, 2015}}</ref> On August 3, 2015, [[Billy Crudup]] was cast in a supporting role.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fleming|first=Mike Jr.|title=Billy Crudup Lands Lead In '20th Century Women'|url=https://deadline.com/2015/08/billy-crudup-20th-century-women-annette-bening-elle-fanning-greta-gerwig-1201491121/|access-date=August 4, 2015|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=August 3, 2015}}</ref>

While preparing for her role in the film, Bening watched films Mills' mother loved<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/movies/20th-century-women-annette-bening-greta-gerwig-elle-fanning-mike-mills.html?_r=0|title=A Boy Raised by a Few '20th Century Women'|work=[[The New York Times]]|first=Julie|last=Bloom|date=November 4, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref> and had extensive talks with Mills about his mom.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2016/10/07/20th-century-women-nyff-press-conference/|title=20th Century Women: Annette Bening movie is not a traditional love story|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|first=Joey|last=Nolfi|date=October 7, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref> Gerwig prepared for her role by taking photography lessons, learning how to use a camera, listening to records, reading books, and watching films, and she also spoke with Mills' sister, whom her character is based upon.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/12/20th-century-women-greta-gerwig-mike-mills-a24-oscars-interview-1201863834/|title='20th Century Women' Star Greta Gerwig Reveals The Ways In Which Art Imitated Life Throughout Mike Mills' Production|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Matt|last=Grobar|date=December 22, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2968025/greta-gerwig-punk-20th-century-women/|title=Greta Gerwig Got a Punk Education While Prepping for 20th Century Women|publisher=[[MTV News]]|first=Hilary|last=Hughes|date=December 30, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greta-gerwig-20th-century-women-lady-bird-annette-bening-q-a-958311|title=Rapid Round: Greta Gerwig on '20th Century Women,' Female Punk Bands and Jimmy Carter's "Malaise" Speech (Q&A)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Ashley|last=Lee|date=December 29, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thefilmstage.com/features/greta-gerwig-on-the-portraits-of-grief-in-20th-century-women-and-jackie/|title=Greta Gerwig on the Portraits of Grief in '20th Century Women' and 'Jackie'|website=The Film Stage|first=Jose|last=Solis|date=December 29, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref> Fanning was given ''[[M. Scott Peck#The Road Less Traveled|The Road Less Traveled]]'' by [[M. Scott Peck]] to help her prepare.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-010117-20th-century-women-production-20161221-story.html|title=With '20th Century Women,' Mike Mills drafts a portrait of people, a time and a place|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|first=Mark|last=Olsen|date=December 30, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref>

===Filming===
[[Principal photography]] on the film began on September 8, 2015, in [[Southern California]],<ref name=Jan2015TW>{{cite news|last=Sneider|first=Jeff|title=Megan Ellison's Annapurna to Produce Mike Mills' '20th Century Women'|url=https://www.thewrap.com/megan-ellisons-annapurna-to-produce-mike-mills-20th-century-women/|access-date=August 4, 2015|website=[[TheWrap]]|date=January 16, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=On the Set for 9/11/15: Matt Damon Starts on Jason Bourne Sequel, Shailene Woodley Wraps Divergent Series: Allegiant|url=http://www.ssninsider.com/on-the-set-for-91115-matt-damon-starts-on-jason-bourne-sequel-shailene-woodley-wraps-divergent-series-allegiant/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915005518/http://www.ssninsider.com/on-the-set-for-91115-matt-damon-starts-on-jason-bourne-sequel-shailene-woodley-wraps-divergent-series-allegiant/|archive-date=September 15, 2015|access-date=September 12, 2015|website=SSN Insider|date=September 11, 2015}}</ref> and concluded on October 27, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ssninsider.com/on-the-set-for-103015-keanu-reeves-starts-on-john-wick-sequel-seth-rogen-and-zac-efron-wrap-up-neighbors-2/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053445/http://www.ssninsider.com/on-the-set-for-103015-keanu-reeves-starts-on-john-wick-sequel-seth-rogen-and-zac-efron-wrap-up-neighbors-2/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|title=On the Set for 10/30/15: Keanu Reeves Starts on John Wick Sequel, Seth Rogen and Zac Efron Wrap Up Neighbors 2|website=SSN Insider|date=October 30, 2015|access-date=September 27, 2016}}</ref> The film was shot over 35 days, mainly in Los Angeles, with exteriors shot in Santa Barbara.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/12/20th-century-women-paterson-toni-ehrmann-ocean-waves-specialty-box-office-preview-1201876275/|title='20th Century Women' & 'Paterson' Join Year-End Awards-Season Fray – Specialty Preview|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Brian|last=Brooks|date=December 28, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref> At one point, a stray [[Bicolor cat|tuxedo cat]] wandered onto the set, and Mills decided to include him in some scenes in the film.

===Music===
[[Roger Neill]] composed the film's score,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://filmmusicreporter.com/2016/01/11/roger-neill-to-score-mike-mills-20th-century-women/|title=Roger Neil to score Mike Mills '20th Century Women'|website=Film Music Reporter|date=January 11, 2016|access-date=June 9, 2016}}</ref> and the following songs are featured in the film:
{{div col}}
* "[[Don't Worry About the Government]]" – [[Talking Heads]]
* "[[(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais]]" – [[The Clash]]
* "[[This Heart of Mine]]" – [[Fred Astaire]]
* "[[In a Sentimental Mood]]" – [[Benny Goodman]] and His Orchestra
* "Fairytale in the Supermarket" – [[The Raincoats]]
* "[[As Time Goes By (song)|As Time Goes By]]" – [[Rudy Vallee]]
* "[[Nervous Breakdown (EP)|I've Had It]]" – [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]]
* "[[GI (album)|Media Blitz]]" – [[Germs (band)|The Germs]]
* "[[Fear of Music|Drugs]]" – Talking Heads
* "Chant D'Amour" – Lars Clutterham
* "[[Love in a Void]]" – [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]]
* "[[Basin Street Blues]]" – [[Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five]]
* "[[Cheree]]" – [[Suicide (band)|Suicide]]
* "[[Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!|Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)]]" – [[Devo]]
* "Vag Punch" – Phlask
* "[[DJ (David Bowie song)|D.J.]]" – [[David Bowie]]
* "[[Neu! 2|Lila Engel (Lilac Angel)]]" – [[Neu!]]
* "[[More Songs About Buildings and Food|The Big Country]]" – Talking Heads
* "So Blue Love" – [[Brick Fleagle]]
* "[[Nervous Breakdown (EP)|Nervous Breakdown]]" – Black Flag
* "After Hours on Dream Street" – [[Sandy Williams]]
* "Why Can't I Touch It" – [[Buzzcocks]]
{{div col end}}

==Release==
In June 2016, [[A24]] acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/06/20th-century-women-annette-bening-a24-film-acquisition-1201781188/|title=Annette Bening-Starrer '20th Century Women' Lands At A24|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Mike Jr.|last=Fleming|date=June 29, 2016|access-date=June 29, 2016}}</ref> It had its world premiere on October 8, 2016, as the Centerpiece film of the [[2016 New York Film Festival|New York Film Festival]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/mike-mills-20th-century-women-nyff-centerpiece/|title=Mike Mills's 20th Century Women is NYFF54 Centerpiece|publisher=Film Society of Lincoln Center|date=July 27, 2016|access-date=August 14, 2016}}</ref> and it was screened at [[AFI Fest]] on November 16.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/annette-bening-20th-century-women-afi-fest-1201887946/|title=Annette Bening's '20th Century Women' to Screen at AFI Fest|work=Variety|first=Dave|last=McNary|date=October 13, 2016|access-date=October 13, 2016}}</ref> The film's [[limited release]] was scheduled to begin on December 25, but it was pushed back to December 28.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/09/20th-century-women-a24-christmas-release-annette-bening-1201826384/|title=A24's '20th Century Women' Sets Christmas Debut|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|date=September 26, 2016|access-date=September 26, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/12/19/506118890/director-mike-millss-new-film-is-20th-century-women|title=Director Mike Mills' New Film Is '20th Century Women'|publisher=[[NPR]]|first=Rachel|last=Martin|date=December 19, 2016|access-date=December 20, 2016}}</ref>

==Reception==
===Box office===
''20th Century Women'' entered [[wide release]] in the United States on January 20, 2017. It grossed $1,385,336 that weekend, ranking 17th at the box office. The film went on to earn a total of $5,664,764 domestically and $1,550,042 in international markets, for a worldwide box office total of $7,214,806.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekly&id=20thcenturywomen.htm&sort=wkly&order=DESC&p=.htm |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |title=20th Century Women - Weekly Box Office Results |access-date=August 28, 2018}}</ref>

===Critical response===
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|88|7.8|230|''20th Century Women'' offers Annette Bening a too-rare opportunity to shine in a leading role -- and marks another assured step forward for writer-director Mike Mills.|ref=yes|access-date=July 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627212247/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/20th_century_women|archive-date=June 27, 2023|url-status=live}} {{Metacritic film prose|83|40|ref=yes|access-date=July 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416074452/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/20th-century-women|archive-date=April 16, 2023|url-status=live}}

[[Owen Gleiberman]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' gave the film a positive review, writing: "The best thing about the movie is Bening's performance as Dorothea Fields, who's portrayed as a very particular kind of contradictory free spirit. Divorced and proud, with a lot of heart and soul but even more over-sharing flakiness".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/20th-century-women-review-new-york-film-festival-1201879299/|title=New York Film Review: '20th Century Women|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=Owen|last=Gleiberman|date=October 9, 2016|access-date=December 21, 2016}}</ref> David Rooney of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' also gave the film a positive review, writing: "Mills uses some of the same devices as ''Beginners'' to illuminate his characters' cultural formation, notably historic montages of their birth years or backgrounds prior to coming together. And he also glances ahead to their future lives, after the arc of the movie. But the quilting is more seamless here because the eccentricities are so integral to the writing and performances."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/20th-century-women-nyff-936007|title='20th Century Women' Review|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |first=David|last=Rooney|date=October 9, 2016|access-date=December 21, 2016}}</ref>

The Writers Guild Foundation listed the script as one of the best of the 2010s, describing the film as "an excellent study in character development. The script uses narrated flashbacks to tell each main character's unique story, bringing us further into their world and allowing us to care more deeply about them. This different take on exposition makes us think about how we hold onto key facts and images that we know about certain people".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-12-21|title=10 out of '10s: Our Favorite Scripts of the Decade|url=https://www.wgfoundation.org/blog/2019/12/18/6swixeccqnhjimlobcjk7o4nen96qo|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208025719/https://www.wgfoundation.org/blog/2019/12/18/6swixeccqnhjimlobcjk7o4nen96qo |archive-date=February 8, 2021 |access-date=2021-02-04|website=The Writers Guild Foundation}}</ref>

===Accolades===
{{main|List of accolades received by 20th Century Women}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{Official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20201124002436/http://20thcenturywomen-movie.com/}}
* {{IMDb title|4385888}}
* {{AllMovie title|663185}}
* {{Mojo title|20thcenturywomen}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|20th_century_women}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170202041554/http://a24awards.com/film/20thcenturywomen/images/20TH_CENTURY_WOMEN.pdf Official screenplay]

{{Mike Mills}}
{{Annapurna Pictures}}
{{AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Intergenerational Film}}

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20th Century Women - Revision history

Ajay Kumar at 14:37, 23 September 2023