diane

The chance to see Mary Kay Place star in a film, instead of serve as support in one, means that Diane matters mightily. Place has mattered in every television show or movie she’s made. She has been making movies steadily since 1983 and has decidedly earned this role in Diane.

middle-aged women have begun moving from the periphery as minor characters to become the center of a film. The heroines of their own lives. This trend could be a reflection of the second coming of Second Wave feminism — at one time a topic as welcome as a Norovirus — and its current prominence in public discourse.