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Netflix Adds Acclaimed Romantic Comedy With 86-Percent on Rotten Tomatoes

Netflix’s romantic comedy library just got a little bigger. Beginners, the Mike Mills-directed film that released in 2011 to critical acclaim, is now streaming on the platform.

The film, which earned actor Christopher Plummer his first Oscar win, was added to the streaming platform on March 1 alongside other fan-favorites such as 50 First Dates, Black Hawk Down, The Holiday, Sicario, and Wedding Crashers.

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Plummer starred in Beginners as Hal, a retired museum director who is dying of lung cancer. Following the death of his wife and in the last few months of his life, he comes out to his son Oliver (Ewan McGregor) as gay. The film largely centers around McGregor’s Oliver as he learns of the parts of his father’s life that Hal kept hidden and as he deals with the aftermath of his father’s death. The movie also starred Mélanie Laurent,

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