Dir. Kelly Fremon Craig
2023 | 105 mins | US
Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Benny Safdie, Kathy Bates

SHOWING TIMES:

• Fri 02 Jun: 3pm
• Sat 03 Jun: 5.30pm
• Sun 04 Jun: 2pm*
• Mon 05 Jun: 5.45pm
• Tue 06 Jun: 10.45am
• Tue 06 Jun: 8pm
• Thu 08 Jun: 2pm*

Films with * will play with Descriptive Subtitles.

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Controversial on publication in 1970 for its candid study of then-taboo subjects including periods and teen sexuality, Judy Blume’s classic young adult novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is a timeless coming-of-age story that explores teenage girlhood with insight, humour, and empathy.

In Kelly Fremon Craig’s (The Edge of Seventeen) big-screen adaptation, 11-year-old Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) is uprooted from her life in New York for the suburbs of New Jersey, where she navigates the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty alongside making friends at her new school and evolving her ideas about religion amidst her parents’ interfaith marriage. She relies on her mother, Barbara (Rachel McAdams), who is also struggling to adjust to life outside the city, and her adoring grandmother, Sylvia (Kathy Bates), who isn’t happy they moved away – and likes to remind them every chance she gets.

Produced by James L Brooks (The Simsons) and co-produced by Blume, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret is big-hearted, frank and and immensly funny adaptation of one of her most successful (and most often banned) books that should appeal to Judy Blume newcomers, nostalgic readers, parents and all those inbetween.

SPECIAL OFFER: Bring Your Own Grandperson!

ONLY £11 for two of you to see Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

The relationship between Margaret & her grandmother (played by Kathy Bates) is essential to this coming-of-age story. To celebrate, we’re running a special BYOG ticket offer so you can take your Grandperson on a movie date!

Your own Grandperson could be a grandparent, a grandchild, or perhaps a surrogate Grandperson for that special someone who might not be related but still taught you how to knit/drive/take on the world.

To BYOG, purchase a Standard ticket and add a £3 ‘Grandperson’ ticket at checkout.

TRIPLE F-RATED:

Directed by a woman, written by a woman and starring a significant woman.

F-Rating is a new rating for films directed by women, written by women and/or with significant female characters on screen, in their own right. Find out more here >>

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74

*Subject to a £1.50 ticketing system charge. We don’t charge this to make a profit. Find out more >>