Mike Mills’s Typical Vibe
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Mike Mills has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
Dir. Mike Mills · With Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig

Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angeles.
Dir. Mike Mills · With Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann, Woody Norman

Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.
Dir. Mike Mills · With Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent

Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using Ritalin.
Dir. Mike Mills · With Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio