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Thelma (2024)

Thelma poster
Directed by
Josh Margolin
Genre
comedy film, action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 436 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An older woman gets scammed out of money by a phone call. With her grandson and a friend, she goes on a mission to track down the criminals.

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What happens

Thelma is a 2024 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Josh Margolin. The film stars June Squibb as a woman who falls victim to a phone scam, and sets out to find the perpetrators with the help of her grandson (Fred Hechinger) and a friend (Richard Roundtree, in his final role). Clark Gregg, Parker Posey, and Malcolm McDowell also star. Thelma premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2024, and was released in the United States by Magnolia Pictures on June 21, 2024. The film received positive reviews and was named one of the top ten independent films of 2024 by the National Board of Review. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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