When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
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- 5 wins & 2 nominations
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- TriviaThelma's apartment in the movie is the real apartment of the real Thelma, who is still alive at the age of 103.
- Crazy creditsA clip showing the real Thelma observing the trees and shouting, "What spirit!" similar to her film counterpart is played at the end of the movie.
- SoundtracksSome Enchanted Evening
Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Performed by Ted Post
Courtesy of Thelma Post
Featured review
perfectly enjoyable, a little flawed, wonderful Squibb and (final) Roundtree performances
It carries enough rumination and pathos on aging and facing not even the end but, as Richard Roundtree says it, "deterorating," while having a good movie plot to carry along this payback after a swindling adventure. It's really June Squibb, who is delightful and serious and bewildered and sad and yet still has her "good" days and, thankfully, the one she's on to get her 10k back is one of those, and Roundtree is such a powerful force here, so empathetic but also the buddy Thelma needs to tell her to not do *that* or to slow down or etc.
While I wished Roundtree was still with us, it's hard to ask for a better movie to close a 55+ year career on than this, and we can tell he's having the time of his life in the role, and with it as much as Shaft or anything else he'd done. He has great chemistry with Squibb, and he knows how to time just the right look of conservation with a mix of "yeah, well, let's do it."
Posey and Clark are having fun as well, though they're saddled with fairly one dimensional roles where the sitcom-ish side of this comes through. I liked the grandson better as a guy at 24, who is (and I could relate as I was like this till... what's my age again) trying to figure himself out and the one thing he knows is he's gotta take care of his grandmother.
The "wandering off to the salad bar for another helping" is a potent analogy: if there was just doddering wandering without any idea, that's one thing; Thelma has a good idea of what she needs to do (again, a "good" day), albeit with the stubbornness of "I don't need my family's help" (or that she knows how fussy they are about it), and that's the joy in the movie is to see a proactive and commanding character, despite if she is mostly riding a scooter, we catch our breath if she falls down, and unintentionally uploading pictures to her Instagram (who hasn't?)
So, not a top 10 of the year sort of flick, but it's perfectly fine being a hit as a single that becomes a double. Oh, and Malcolm McDowell shows up and gets to chew a little scenery for a little while, but those with relatively good hearing will hear him much earlier in the story.
While I wished Roundtree was still with us, it's hard to ask for a better movie to close a 55+ year career on than this, and we can tell he's having the time of his life in the role, and with it as much as Shaft or anything else he'd done. He has great chemistry with Squibb, and he knows how to time just the right look of conservation with a mix of "yeah, well, let's do it."
Posey and Clark are having fun as well, though they're saddled with fairly one dimensional roles where the sitcom-ish side of this comes through. I liked the grandson better as a guy at 24, who is (and I could relate as I was like this till... what's my age again) trying to figure himself out and the one thing he knows is he's gotta take care of his grandmother.
The "wandering off to the salad bar for another helping" is a potent analogy: if there was just doddering wandering without any idea, that's one thing; Thelma has a good idea of what she needs to do (again, a "good" day), albeit with the stubbornness of "I don't need my family's help" (or that she knows how fussy they are about it), and that's the joy in the movie is to see a proactive and commanding character, despite if she is mostly riding a scooter, we catch our breath if she falls down, and unintentionally uploading pictures to her Instagram (who hasn't?)
So, not a top 10 of the year sort of flick, but it's perfectly fine being a hit as a single that becomes a double. Oh, and Malcolm McDowell shows up and gets to chew a little scenery for a little while, but those with relatively good hearing will hear him much earlier in the story.
- Quinoa1984
- Jun 26, 2024
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- Thelma: Una abuela en acción
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- Gross US & Canada
- $8,993,518
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,303,222
- Jun 23, 2024
- Gross worldwide
- $11,269,028
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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