Kenneth Lonergan's 'Margaret' Starring Anna Paquin Finally Has a Trailer

Thursday, 01 September 2011 10:42 Written by  Jordan DeSaulnier
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Kenneth Lonergan's 'Margaret' Starring Anna Paquin Finally Has a Trailer

She's now most known as Rogue in the X-Men films and Sookie Stackhouse on the Southern Gothic HBO series True Blood, but Anna Paquin won an Oscar at the age of twelve for her supporting role in The Piano, so there's no doubt that she can hold her own in the heaviest of dramas, even without mutants and/or vampires.  That's good news for Margaret, the sophomore film from writer-director Kenneth Lonergan in which Paquin stars as a high school student who must grapple with some serious, grown up stuff after she witnesses a terrible accident.  The first trailer for Margaret has premiered online, and it starts off like a jaunty, whimsical little comedy before abruptly switching gears.  Watch the trailer to see how, in a matter of seconds, a preview can take you from, "Oh, this looks like fun" to "Oh, oh my god."  Also, the impressive supporting cast includes Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo, both of whom look to be doing nicely restrained work.

You can watch the trailer right here or in HD over at Apple.

Here's the official synopsis:

MARGARET centers on a 17-year-old New York City high-school student who feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman’s life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world.

Kenneth Lonergan, who contributed to the scripts for Gangs of New York and Analyze This, made an auspicious directorial debut more than a decade ago with You Can Count On Me, which featured amazing performances from Ruffalo and Laura Linney.  An extremely drawn-out editing process and lawsuits over completion funding for the film have made Margaret somewhat notorious, as production took place all of six years ago.  That helps explain the ten-year gap between Lonergan's films.

Anyways, the cast includes a bevy of hugely talented actors, including Jean Reno, Olivia Thirlby, Kieran Culkin, Allison Janney, Krysten Ritter, Rosemarie Dewitt, and Matthew Broderick, who reportedly loaned Lonergan the money to finish editing.

Margaret finally arrives in theaters on September 30th.

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