Margaret is a 2011 drama film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. The film stars Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Kieran Culkin, Olivia Thirlby, and Rosemarie DeWitt. Margaret originally was scheduled for release in 2007 by Fox Searchlight Pictures, but was repeatedly delayed while Lonergan struggled to create a final cut he was satisfied with, resulting in multiple lawsuits. While the studio insisted the film's running time could not exceed 150 minutes, Lonergan's preferred version was closer to three hours. Eventually, Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker contributed to... editing a 150-minute cut which Lonergan approved, and Fox Searchlight Pictures released the film limitedly in the United States on September 30, 2011. 17-year-old Manhattan student Lisa Cohen, while shopping on the Upper West Side, distracts a bus driver, Jason Berstone, leading to a fatal accident in which a pedestrian is run over and dies in Lisa's arms. In collaboration with the victim's best friend and cousin, Lisa ultimately becomes involved in a lawsuit against the driver. Meanwhile, Lisa flirts with her math teacher, Aaron Caije, and argues about politics and terrorism with her classmates.
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| Release date: | September 30, 2011 |
| Directed by: | Kenneth Lonergan |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 150 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sydney Pollack, Scott Rudin, Gary Gilbert |
| Editor: | Anne McCabe |
| Music by: | Nico Muhly |
| Cinematography: | Ryszard Lenczewski |
| Screenplay by: | Kenneth Lonergan |
| Estimated budget: | $14,000,000 |