Ewan McGregor's mother dies of cancer, leaving her 75 year old widower Christopher Plummer to explore his long-kept secret homosexuality.
After some years his Father also dies, and McGregor continues his life and loves, regularly reminiscing about his Father.
The title "Beginners" shows how Father and Son both began their lives all over again; Father learning to live as a gay man, and Son learning what it was like to fall in love again.
Little else happens in what turns out to be a pretty dull movie, and it therefore squanders an interesting idea.
I guess I shouldn't dismiss it so, seeing as it deals with how an understanding Son allows his Father to experience the feelings he's hidden for so long.
Maybe they should have set it pagan Rome, or the Wild West.
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