Kicking & Screaming (2005)
Directed by Jesse Dylan
Phil Weston has been unathletic his entire life. In college he failed at every sport that he tried out for. It looks like his 10-year old son, Sam, is following in his footsteps. But when Phil's hyper-competitive dad benches Sam, Phil decides to transfer his son to a new team which needs a coach. Phil steps in to be the temporary coach and immediately begins to butt heads with his dad over this new competition in their lives.
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She lives with her single father Mark (played with aging, Gen-X charm by Kicking & Screaming ’s Josh Hamilton) and has zero friends, winning a superlative award for “Most Quiet.”
Yet while Baumbach’s oeuvre (from “Kicking & Screaming” to “The Meyerowitz Stories”) typically focuses on rich neurotic Jewish men in Manhattan with festering father issues, “Lady Bird” follows the misadventures of a restless working class Catholic girl stuck in Sacramento in a state of constant warfare with a mother by turns big-hearted and downright scary.