One of Judy Blume’s most celebrated novels is finally getting the movie treatment.
The trailer shows Margaret as she prays for help with encounters with puberty and new classmates as she tries to fit in in a new town, all while her mother Barbara work to keep afloat as well.
At a new school, Margaret and her peers learn about puberty, purchase bras and feminine hygiene products for the first time, experience their first kisses, and daydream about life at 19, teases the trailer, which is set toGeorge Harrison’s iconic 1970 song “What is Life.”
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While Margaret deals with a new school, Barbara is still “finding her own footing in a new place,” and grandmother Sylvia tries to find “happiness in the next phase of her life” as her loved ones move away, according to an official synopsis.
Though Margaret and Barbara have moved away, “questions of identity, one’s place in the world, and what brings meaning to life” draw each of the three characters “closer together than ever before.”
McAdams, 44, recently told PEOPLE she was thrilled to have the author on set during the making of the film.
Bates, 74, added, “The book is obviously about a young girl who is becoming a young woman and she’s embracing her womanhood. And I think women throughout history have been taught to feel negatively about their bodies and about the processes that their bodies go through. I think this film will help young women feel better about their bodies.”
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaretis in theaters April 28.
source: people.com
