Ladies in Black (2018)

I watched this on a transpacific flight of incredible length, and it was really fun to watch, in the sense that it was entertaining and while not action packed, it left you with plenty to think about.
The film is set in Sydney in 1959 in a department store.  We are all now more familiar with this setting since watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, who spends the first season of the show working in a very similar job in a Manhattan department store.
The heroine of the story, who takes her place as a lowly temp worker in the busy holiday season, is Lisa Miles, a 16-year-old high school graduate awaiting her university entrance exam results. The bookish girl dreams of being a poet and getting more out of life than the housewife role of her hard-working mother.  She finds that she has more in common with the European immigrants she meets through one of her co-workers than she does with other girls in the store, who dream of marriage rather than education.  The movie reminds us that it wasn't that long ago that women could not even go to college without their father's permission.  While there are miles to go in this arena, it is occasionally good to take stock of where we have come.