9 Movie Scenes That Completely Change Their Film

Part of the new breed of coming of age movies, Lady Bird is a touching, sentimental look at one girl growing up and preparing for college - clashing with her mother the entire time in the way that only teenage girls can. Christine - aka the self-titled Lady Bird - spends the entire movie in an up and down relationship with her mother Marion who's just like her.

Marion in particular is disdainful of Lady Bird's desire to attend a big city university, constantly telling her daughter she's not smart or rich enough to make anything of herself outside of the state.

As the film culminates, Lady Bird manages to secure a place in New York - resulting in Marion not talking to her for the rest of the summer and giving her an icy drop off at the airport. Laurie Metcalf then acts her socks off in showing Marion's overwhelming flood of emotions at her daughter leaving, changing her mind to come back and say goodbye but finding Lady Bird already gone.

It's small, poignant, and in keeping with the rest of the movie, but it's the one moment that really gives away just how much Marion cares for her daughter no matter how hard she's been on her the throughout the rest of their journey. It's the lynchpin that makes the film as sentimental as it's now regarded.