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Lily Tomlin stars as Elle who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle's granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets. Grandma packs 5 great performances by Tomlin, Judy Greer, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden and Sam Elliott is also explored a very touching subject like abortion and even true love. It does have problems tho as a film some of the dialogue was kinda off sometimes and certain actors didn't do that much and they weren't that great to begin with such as John Cho and Nat Wolf other than that this was still a pretty great movie very dramatic, funny and even kinda badass at certain moments and i'm gonna give it an 7.5/10
edwagreen
Where was the Oscar nomination for Lily Tomlin as best actress here. Wow, was she ever passed up for this.This no-nonsense academic grandmother who is way ahead of her time gave Tomlin the opportunity to present one of her best performances ever. Ascerbic, to the point, but the hip lesbian grandmother pulled no punches here.The film is devoted to Tomlin trying to pay for an abortion for her granddaughter. It depicts their various adventures in this pursuit and culminates in one scene where Tomlin beats up the father of the child.Grieving the loss of her partner Violet and ending of a relationship with a much younger girl will only complicate matters but Tomlin's character has the mettle to carry on.
Tom Dooley
Lily Tomlin plays Elle a woman who's life long lover has recently died and she has taken up with a much younger woman but that relationship is now sliding into the rocks. She is an academic who academia has forgotten about and is somewhat disgruntled with the World. Then her granddaughter turns up – this is Julie Garner as Sage. She has some life changing news and needs a quick fix of cash to sort things out.The problem is Elle is more or less broke so, without losing heart, they start on a road trip to find as much cash as they can lay their hands on. On the way both women come face to face with their pasts and the life choices that brought them to this point in time and it is revelatory for both.Now this is billed as a comedy and a lot of it derives from the sour comments and general bad behaviour of Elle. If you think old people being cranky has been done to death as a vehicle for comedy then best to give this a miss. I like it as it works on more than one level. The grumpiness belies a real person who cares, loves and has been through life and she keeps the scars hidden by the outward attitude. As such I felt that this film does indeed have a lot to offer and is very much worth investing the time to see it.
tsestan
Hard to finish the movie when you hate the main character. Don't get me wrong. I think Lily Tomlin is a great actress and would like to see her in much more movies but awful sentences can make even excellent actor sound unnatural and amateurish. Add to those awful sentences bunch of overused indie movie clichés (like transsexual hairdresser, cool lesbian grandmother etc.) and fair dose of unmotivated screaming (guess for creating comical moments when there is none) you get recipe for disaster. I behaved like a hipster few years ago and had way to much compassion for all sort of indie or European hyped movies and tried to "understand" them or blame myself for not liking them (I thought I missed some greatness or am not educated enough) but no more. I don't like this movie. Sorry
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