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‘Thelma’ Review: June Squibb Steals The Show In Josh Margolin’s Hilarious Twilight-Years Action Comedy – Sundance Film Festival
“I didn’t expect to get so old,” sighs 93-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) in Josh Margolin’s hilarious and unexpectedly poignant mash-up of Point Blank and The Straight Story. Squibb, so good in…
Margolin lays out all the film’s key elements with refreshing speed, opening with 24-year-old Daniel ( Fred Hechinger) patiently helping the recently widowed but still fiercely independent June access her emails in a scene that everyone can relate to (“What’s an ‘inbox’?” she wants to know). Time casts a long shadow across Thelma, and it’s a shame that Roundtree (AKA Shaft), who died in October, didn’t get to attend the Sundance premiere and hear the applause that greeted the explosive callback to his 1996 movie Original Gangstas. Title: Thelma Festival (Section): Sundance (Premieres) Distribution: CAA Media Finance Director/Screenwriter: Josh Margolin Cast: June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Parkey Posey, Malcolm McDowell Running time: 1 hr 37 min
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