After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 16-year-old, and is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and the community where he was born and raised. Bonded by the man who held their family together, Lee and Patrick struggle to adjust to a world without him.
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The unique complexities of growing up in a working-class family in Boston and its surrounding areas often mean that those people who are best suited to telling those stories are the ones that lived it themselves. And while Manchester by the Sea isn't autobiographical, it is informed by the experiences of the people who were involved in its creation.
