BEGINNERS

In Beginners, the 80-year-old Christopher Plummer plays Hal, a 75-year-old man who decides to finally come out of the closet after his wife of five decades has died of cancer. Unfortunately for Hal, he too eventually dies from cancer, but only after first having lived five years as an out gay man.
The film is based on what actually happened when Beginners' director Mike Mills lived almost the exact same scenario when his own father came out under the same circumstances.