LizzieMaine
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"Grandma" a terrible movie about a grandmother - Lily Tomlin - helping her +/- 16 year old granddaughter raise money for the granddaughter's abortion, which she absolutely wants to have today. Since neither have any money and neither wants to ask the scary mother for money, they run around trying to scrounge up the funds. Yup, that's the plot.
Throw in that the grandmother is angry in general, a lesbian who just broke up with her preposterously much younger girlfriend and the granddaughter's complete tool of a former "boyfriend" (the baby's father) and you have most of the key elements of the movie.
I will always respect Lily Tomlin for this one quote: "No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up."
But she is no actress. The only real actor in the entire movie appears when Sam Elliot makes a cameo and shows everyone else what acting is.
This is just an awful movie.
We had that one earlier this year -- the latest in the "free-spirited/wacky old lady" genre specifically engineered to appeal to middle-class white Boomer women who consider themselves rebels against expectation because they dye a green streak into their hair. Since that's pretty much our breadbasket demographic it did reasonably well, but I'm as sick of that whole formula as you are. It's trite, patronizing, and completely transparent.