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Thelma Gives 94-Year-Old June Squibb the Role of a Lifetime
Josh Margolin’s Sundance comedy, about an elderly woman on a quest to find the crooks who scammed her, never feels lazy, cheap, or cruel.
But then something like writer-director Josh Margolin’s Thelma comes along, about a 94-year-old woman who goes on a quest to locate the crooks who scammed her out of $10,000, and manages to be so charming and heartfelt that the laughs never feel lazy, cheap, or cruel. So when Thelma receives an anxious phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson, saying that he’s in jail after hitting a pregnant woman with a car and needs $10,000 in cash sent by mail to his defense attorney, she buys it. Ben and Thelma use their digital hearing aids like earpieces in a caper flick: He helps her navigate a cluttered antique store strewn with lamps and Hummel figurines as if it were an elaborate laser-beam security system.
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