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Twenty-seven-year-old Frances Halladay (4-time Academy Award®-nominee Greta Gerwig), originally of Sacramento, California, is trying to make it in New York City as a dancer, as an apprentice in a modern dance troupe. Despite both being heterosexual, she and her best friend, Sophie (Mickey Sumner), who went to college together at Vassar, consider themselves to be like an old, married, lesbian couple who don’t have sex with each other. Frances stumbles from one situation to another, both in her professional and personal lives, with her expectations and her abilities not always matching each other. In some respects, she stays true to her slightly off-kilter visions without understanding that she doesn’t have the abilities to meet those visions. In other respects, she sells herself short, as when she and a male friend, Benji, kid each other that they are both undatable, while deep in their hearts they wouldn’t mind dating each other. One thing that Frances does realize is that she has to work to survive in expensive New York, since she is unable to rely on her parents for financial support. The question then becomes if Frances will be able to find balance for her life in New York.

Co-written by Gerwig, directed by 4-time Oscar-nominee Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) and featuring brilliant supporting turns by Oscar®-nominee Adam Driver and Grace Gummer (Mr. Robot), this award-winning indie homage to French New Wave cinema is often sited as the film that broke Gerwig into the Hollywood mainstream.