<P> Christine `` Lady Bird '' McPherson is a senior student at a Catholic high school in Sacramento , in 2002 . She has a strained relationship with her parents , and is best friends with Julianne `` Julie '' Steffans . Christine and Julie join their school 's theatre program , where Christine meets a young man named Danny O'Neill . They develop a romantic relationship , leading to Christine joining Danny 's family for Thanksgiving dinner rather than doing so with her own family . Their relationship is abruptly broken when Christine finds Danny making out with a boy in a bathroom stall . At the behest of her mother , Christine takes on a menial job at a coffee shop , where she meets an edgy musician named Kyle Scheible . He and Christine begin a romantic relationship , and she begins to drift away from Julie in favor of a friendship with a popular girl named Jenna Walton . </P>
<P> Christine `` Lady Bird '' McPherson is a senior student at a Catholic high school in Sacramento , in 2002 . She has a strained relationship with her parents , and is best friends with Julianne `` Julie '' Steffans . Christine and Julie join their school 's theatre program , where Christine meets a young man named Danny O'Neill . They develop a romantic relationship , leading to Christine joining Danny 's family for Thanksgiving dinner rather than doing so with her own family . Their relationship is abruptly broken when Christine finds Danny making out with a boy in a bathroom stall . At the behest of her mother , Christine takes on a menial job at a coffee shop , where she meets an edgy musician named Kyle Scheible . He and Christine begin a romantic relationship , and she begins to drift away from Julie in favor of a friendship with a popular girl named Jenna Walton . </P>
where does the movie lady bird take place
where does the movie lady bird take place
Sacramento
Sacramento