SXSW's 'Beginners' hits theaters

AUSTIN (KXAN) - During this years South by Southwest the movie called "Beginners" made its U.S. premiere.

Friday it opens in theaters and there's already Oscar buzz about it.

The movie is about 75 year old Christopher Plummer who tells his son Ewan McGregor that he is gay.

Plummer’s character has been married for 44 years and living a life that was expected of his generation. But after his wife passes away, he finds a young boyfriend played by Goran Visnjic, and starts living a new life. A life he has always dreamed about.

Mike Mills wrote and directed the movie basing it loosely on his life when his father told him he was gay.

"We would have lots of intense conversations and fights, great fights and the film is sort of a continuation of that," said Mike Mills, writer and director of "Beginners."

This beautiful and amazing story shows McGregor not only coming to terms with his new relationship with his father but as an illness slowly claims Plummer's life he demonstrates how you need to live each moment to its fullest.

"If that can be contagious in anyway to the audience - you know change when you least expect it can happen this sort of flowering of emotional vulnerability can happen right when you don't think it can," said Mills.

"Beginners" is rated R.  It’s showing at the Regal Arbor and the Alamo on South Lamar Boulevard.