Six months later, Mills' father - a 75-year-old retired museum director - announced that he's gay. For 45 years, they lived together, raising Mills and his older sisters, until Mills' mother died in 1999. (Focus Features)įilmmaker Mike Mills' parents met in junior high school. Academy Award nominee Christopher Plummer (left) and Ewan McGregor star as father and son in Mike Mills' Beginners.
