The movie is very good.

It was but the book was better😄

In the book I got upset as she got the colors of the Monarch butterfly wrong and it really bugged me. The Monarch is my favorite butterfly and I used to grow milk weed for them in Colorado. So far I haven't been able to get it to grow here in Arkansas.

I can understand how something like that could bug someone. It's one of the reasons why I typically don't read books about stories based in LA. As a native Angeleno who spent most of my life there, it bugged me when writers would blatently misrepresent something about LA. All of which is kind of weird for me because I have never been one of those kinds of readers whose enjoyment of a story is contingent on the story's level of believability. It's why I read mostly fiction.

Having recently relocated to NoCA, I'm curious if I can be more objective now about stories about LA.

I hope you can be. My son loved northern CA.