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"Squibb turned 93 on the set and insisted on doing most of her own stunts during the seven-week production."

Your move Tom Cruise.

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how can zuckemborg let this happen!

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Look at the bottoms of those trees. Look how gnarled they are, and yet they live. 

Not enough movies attempt to have honest conversations about being elderly— sometimes I think it’s because we are mostly afraid of the truths, the reality and the anxieties of being a burden on the ones you love. Thelma is not only unafraid to discuss them, but also has a blast poking fun at them. There is an acknowledgment that with age, there is a sense of identity loss, but it’s also a compelling reminder that despite how gnarled we may become, the human spirit remains very much intact. 

Just rambling now, but I never met my grandparents and this really hit me good. Would imagine it hits harder for those with connections to the grandparents. It’s also the hardest I laughed and cried during this year’s Sundance, so there’s that to love about it.

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Call your grandma. Made me wish I could call mine again.

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they should remake every movie Tom cruise has been in and replace him with June squibb.

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that’s (grand)mother

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thelma could be tom cruise but tom cruise could never be thelma

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Pretty magical that I can write that Thelma is the comedy film of the year and I sobbed over it the entire drive home after watching! 

Outrageously funny, impressively naturalistic, and so overwhelmingly earnest. I know for a fact that no other film this year has even come close to making me laugh as hard as Thelma has. Equally so, I don’t think I’ve ever gasped so sharply over someone going up the stairs or stepping over a lamp before. The peril is so specific, but equally so relatable that it feels ten times bigger than it actually is. Kind of a phenomenal example of how to create stakes within the confines of a hyper-specific narrative. Every moment plays pretty…

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how many people do you think starey gary has eaten?

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Grandma was scammed, somebody call The Beekeeper! 

Nevermind, she’ll handle it herself. A heartfelt intellectual exercise in depicting the mundane as harrowing. 

Because when you’re almost 100 years old, stairs are harrowing. Fantastic movie.

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This movie is a goddamned delight. An action thriller with a 93-year old protagonist that’s also a meditation on what it means to age and depend on people as time goes on.

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the difference between tom cruise and june squibb is that one is an accomplished action star and the other is a scientologist hack