Lady Bird: An artistically inclined 17 - year - old girl comes of
age in Sacramento, California, in a film that excavates both the
humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.
Although dramatically flat, Greta Gerwig's coming - of -
age directorial debut covers its Mumblecore tracks with jabs of
humor and a breeze of earthy authenticity.Set in Sacramento, California (Gerwig's hometown), the story focuses on the fraught relationship between
Lady Bird (a.k.a. Christine — played by Saoirse Ronan) and her overworked mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf), whose emotions run hot or cold.