Empire | ‘Lady Bird’ Review
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“I wish I could live through something,” sighs 17-year-old Christine McPherson, frustrated and bored in her Catholic high school in a small town in Sacramento, or as she despairingly calls it, “the Midwest of California”. She dreams of going to an arts college on the East Coast — though her family can only really afford the local college, much to the quiet heartache of her out-of-work dad, Larry (Letts) — and so she taps her heels against the door marked escape while the parental bond continues to fray and thin beneath her feet.
