Grandma (2015)

Directed by

Paul Weitz

Genre

drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 391 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A lesbian poet and widow is asked by her pregnant teenage granddaughter for money to get an abortion. They spend a day driving around town trying to borrow cash from the poet's former friends and lovers.

fast-pacedwittybittersweetquirkywarmurgentconversationallow-key

What happens

Grandma is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and produced by Paul Weitz. It stars Lily Tomlin as Elle, a lesbian poet and widow whose teenage granddaughter (played by Julia Garner) visits her to ask for money for an abortion. Over the space of a day, they visit numerous people from Elle's past to call in favors in an effort to raise the money. Weitz wrote the script with Tomlin in mind after working with her on the 2013 film Admission. After she agreed to star, they edited the script together. Most of the other cast members were actors with whom Weitz had previously collaborated. The film was shot over 19 days in Los Angeles in 2014 with a budget of less than $600,000. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival as the closing night feature and was released on August 21, 2015, by Sony Pictures Classics. It grossed $7.1 million at the box office and was well received by critics. The film was named among the top ten independent films of 2015 by the National Board of Review, and Tomlin was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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