That’s due in no small part to the film’s director and screenwriter Kelly Fremon Craig ( “The Edge of Seventeen”) and storied producer James L. Now, 53 years after “Are You There, God?” was published, Margaret’s story is finally hitting the big screen with Blume’s blessing.

The retired author has famously turned down offers to adapt her cherished novel into film and TV projects for years. “And today it’s seeing it again and bringing you right back to your childhood.” “It’s seeing yourself, when you think you’re the only one, and finding yourself in a book,” she told Glamour. A new generation is taking up the fightįifty-three years after the publication of Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,’ the fight to destigmatize menstruation continues in film and TV.īut Blume, who has been using her platform to fight the present wave of book bans targeting kids’ books dealing with gender, sexuality and race, has been most protective of “Margaret” because it means so much to the women who have been telling her as much for the past five decades. Movies Judy Blume made periods a hot-button topic. We are really enjoying one another right now, and I think we’re better friends than we’ve ever been,” she added. Being 85, your kids understand that you’re not going to be there forever.

“This is also a really sweet time between me and my kids. So that’s huge,” she said.īut being an octogenarian isn’t so bad either. We fell in love, and have had a lasting, wonderful relationship, which I never thought I would have when I was 40. “I keep going back to 40, because George and I met when we were around 40-ish, and life really began anew. The couple run an independent bookstore, Books & Books, in Key West, Fla. The author focused on midlife as her golden age because that’s when she crossed paths with her husband, George Cooper.

Writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig’s adaptation, starring Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel McAdams, captures spirit of the Judy Blume classic and reveals how contemporary it remains.įorty seems to be the magic number for Blume. Movies Review: ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ is as lovely and amazing as the Judy Blume novel

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