At a cursory glance, The Half of It and Lady Bird are only similar in that they're both movies about teen life. But Greta Gerwig too creates a warm and intimate portrait of female adolescence. Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan), like Ellie, struggles to fit into her hometown as she grows up but still comes to find parts of it that she loves dearly. And also, what she doesn't find in romance, she discovers in friendship.
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