Thelma movie review

MOVIE TITLE: Thelma

This fun “senior” action comedy is now playing in theaters, as well as on Fandango at Home

RATING: PG-13

LENGTH: 1 hour 38 minutes

Movie Review Mom GRADE: A

IN A NUTSHELL:

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.

This delightful film was directed and written by Josh Margolin. The story is based on Josh’s real grandmother!

Keep good ones like this coming, my friend! Already, it has won 5 awards from several film festivals. Well deserved!

THINGS I LIKED:

June Squib is absolutely terrific in this. June is 94 years old in real life and is doing great! I love that she’s still making movies and definitely seems to be having a blast. It would be so cool to watch her get nominated and even win an Oscar at her age! She had done a lot of stage work but really didn’t get into film until age 60! This is her first leading role and she crushes it! What a career she’s having!
The rest of the cast is also really great and includes Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Malcolm McDowell, and Clark Gregg. Sadly, Richard Rountree died last year from cancer. He was only 81. The older I get, the younger that sounds!
Every scene is so doggone funny and adorable.
The humor is spoken, visual, and often physical. I was completely charmed during the entire movie.
While the movie is extremely funny, it also includes very touching and insightful moments about aging and family dynamics.
The musical score is a lot of fun.
I adore the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movies, so I loved the shout-out, as well as June Squibb’s character’s attempt to have an impossible mission, herself, including a very slow “chase scene” with scooter chairs.
All of the “action” is definitely age appropriate and believable.
It was nice to hear Richard Roundtree’s character describe his nursing home in such positive terms. It was great that he was taking advantage of all the activities his nursing home offered, including instructions on how to help someone up who has fallen down. I remember the day when my mother could no longer get herself up when she fell out of her bed. Moving elderly parents into a nursing home is such a difficult decision to make.
With so many Baby Boomers getting older, I hope we’ll see more charming movies like this so we appreciate them more and so they have films they can relate to.