Lady Bird, a movie so popular it has made history ... about three false endings and a tacked-on driving scene celebrating Sacramento. Indie films are notoriously white and privileged.

Sister Sarah Joan has just read Lady Bird’s college essay, and remarks, “it’s clear how much you love Sacramento.” Lady Bird is surprised — she wants nothing more than to get out of Sacramento after ...

Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson is a high-school senior from the "wrong side of the tracks". She longs for adventure, sophistication, and opportunity, but finds little of that in her Sacramento ...

Gerwig (who also wrote the script) uses her own biography as a German-Irish native of Sacramento, Calif., to depict an American girl who, like Leigh’s Lady Bird, realizes that cultural turmoil ...