May December 2023 Movie Quotes

May December 2023

May December Quotes

May December is an incredible movie that explores performance and exploitation while balancing surreal melodrama with humane perception. Starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton. Directed by Todd Haynes. The film’s release date is December 1, 2023.

A famous television actor, Elizabeth, travels to Savannah to research a role in a new film about a scandalous tabloid romance. The relationship between Gracie and Joe was once a hot topic in the gossip pages due to their significant age difference. Gracie even served time in prison for their relationship. However, after her release, they married and had three children who were about to graduate high school. Elizabeth initially finds their untraditional marriage predictable, but her observation reveals more profound layers of the decades-old scandal.

May December 2023 Movie Quotes

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Gracie: Insecure people are very dangerous, aren’t they? I’m secure. Make sure you put that in there.
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Elizabeth: Your responsibility, ultimately, is to yourself.

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Gracie: I am naive. I always have been. In a way, it’s been a gift.

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Elizabeth: You’d never admit it to one another, but you’re wearing practically nothing and you’re rubbing up against each other … and sweating … and it’s for hours, and you start losing the line of, like, am I pretending that I’m experiencing pleasure, or am I pretending that I’m not experiencing pleasure?

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Student: How do you choose your roles?
Elizabeth: Well, when I’m lucky enough to choose my roles, I want to find a character that’s … That’s difficult to, on the surface, understand. I want to take the person, I want to figure out why are they like this. Were they born, or were they made? And that can run the gamut from the more notorious to the … Just anyone.

May December

2023

Quotes from May December 2023 Film on Netflix

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Elizabeth: It’s the complexity. It’s the moral grey areas that are interesting, right?

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Mary: Why would you want to play someone who you think is a bad person?
Elizabeth: Are you kidding? I mean, pick any great role. Medea or Hedda Gabler, or …

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Joe: She saw me. I wanted it.

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Joe: Then what was this about?
Elizabeth: This is just what grown-ups do.

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Gracie: You understand me?
Elizabeth: I do.
Gracie: I hope you didn’t think that disgusting brother thing was real.
Elizabeth: What?
Gracie: It’s disgusting. I don’t know what he’s doing telling you these things.

Quotes from May December Movie

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Gracie: My father used to say, “You’re either leaving this house in a veil, or in a box.”
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Elizabeth: I could see how being in a relationship with him, in a marriage, would be isolating.
Gracie: Precisely.

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Elizabeth: It’s strange, even after everything she did and how public it was, she doesn’t seem to carry around any shame or guilt.
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Joe: People … they, like, see me as, like, a victim, or something. I mean, we’ve been together for almost 24 years now. Like … Why would we do that if we weren’t happy?

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Cameron: Have you acted in sex scenes?
Teacher: You are staying late.
Cameron: Yes, I have.
Teacher: You don’t have to answer.
Elizabeth: No, it’s fine. I have. And it’s a strange part of acting.
Cameron: Like what?
Elizabeth: Well … sometimes it’s really mechanical, like a choreographed dance, you know, where the only thing you can focus on is where you’re supposed to be, and when. And then sometimes there’s real chemistry between two people and you start feeling like it’s real. In a strange way.

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Cameron: Have you acted in sex scenes?
Teacher: You are staying late.
Cameron: Yes, I have.
Teacher: You don’t have to answer.
Elizabeth: No, it’s fine. I have. And it’s a strange part of acting.
Cameron: Like what?
Elizabeth: Well … sometimes it’s really mechanical, like a choreographed dance, you know, where the only thing you can focus on is where you’re supposed to be, and when. And then sometimes there’s real chemistry between two people and you start feeling like it’s real. In a strange way.

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Morris: And it’s funny, really, because for all the rapists, murderers, frauds, hitmen, never did I end up on the front page of the New York Times. But for Gracie, I ended up on the front page of the New York Times.
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Tom Atherton: Like I didn’t even know Gracie. Like, what would make a 36-year-old woman have an affair with a seventh grader? Beats me.
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Elizabeth: There are things that exist inside people that don’t necessarily come to head until later and I try and look for the seeds of those things.
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Elizabeth: I mean, I know that for me, personally, the past weighs on me. You know, decisions I’ve made, or relationships.

Plot May December (2023) movie

In 2015, actress Elizabeth Berry came to Savannah to research her upcoming role in an independent movie. In 1992, Gracie had sex with a 13-year-old schoolmate of her son Georgie. She went to prison and gave birth to Honor in jail. However, Gracie and Joe are married after twenty-three years and have three children: Honor and twins Charlie and Mary.

Elizabeth talks with Tom Atherton, Gracie’s ex-husband, and her son, Georgie, who is now a musician. Joe has a hobby, which is raising monarch butterflies. He offers Michaela a vacation together, but she rejects the idea because he is married. During the Q&A session, Elizabeth revealed that she likes to play people with questionable morals.

The whole family goes to the restaurant for dinner. Georgie proposes to tell secrets about his mother in exchange for a job. Eventually, he says that Gracie was abused by her brothers. It’s controversial because his mother reveals that she communicates with her brothers.

Elizabeth asks Joe to help with the nebulizer. He shows Gracie’s letter to him. Later, the actress seduces him and suggests starting a new life without an old wife. Joe realizes that he and his wife are just the story for a Hollywood star. He argues with Gracie about the beginning of their relationship. Although Joe was a teenager, Gracie claims Joe seduced her. Joe struggles because he wasn’t ready to be a father twenty years ago.

Gracie goes on a hunt but doesn’t shoot the fox. Joe gives freedom to the butterfly. The family attended Charlie and Mary’s graduation ceremony, with Elizabeth taking photos from the crowd. Joe is glad for his kids and cries. Eventually, Gracie warns Elizabeth about George’s fake stories and confesses that they talk to each other every day.

Elizabeth acts as a predator on the scene in the pet store stockroom. Every following variant is more evident about the intentions of the main character. Even when the director is satisfied with the result, Elizabeth insists on making one more shot. Finally, she says, “It’s getting more real.”

Trailer

May December

2023

Cast:
Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry
Julianne Moore as Gracie Atherton-Yoo
Charles Melton as Joe Yoo
Cory Michael Smith as Georgie Atherton
D. W. Moffett as Tom Atherton
Piper Curda as Honor Atherton-Yoo
Elizabeth Yu as Mary Atherton-Yoo
Gabriel Chung as Charlie Atherton-Yoo

Genre: drama

Release date: December 1, 2023

Company Credits

© Netflix, Gloria Sanchez Productions, Killer Films, MountainA, Project Infinity, Taylor & Dodge.

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