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Wonkette Movie Night: Grandma -- with Lily Tomlin
https://www.wonkette.com/p/wonkette-movie-night-grandma'Where can you get a reasonably priced abortion in this town?'
Three generations of women: granddaughter, mother, and grandma, complicated people with complicated relationships. Grandma is the story of three women and their confused but very human connectedness. Yet the story is a fairly simple one.
A granddaughter (Sage) gets pregnant and goes to her more liberal-minded, lesbian grandma (Elle) for help over her business-focused mother (Judy). Sage needs money for an abortion that she has scheduled at the end of the day.
The two women embark on a journey in Elle's 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer (which was Lily Tomlin's personal vehicle) to get the money. The journey they take is of remembrances of Elle's life and the people whose lives she touched.
The movie is full of sharp wit delivered perfectly by the talented cast but the amazing Lily Tomlin steals the show. When I was first looking for movies to schedule for Pride month I wanted half of the movies to be centered on women. So I picked two films that offered entirely different takes on lesbians and the power of women. The first was Bound, a film I had seen a couple of times.
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A granddaughter (Sage) gets pregnant and goes to her more liberal-minded, lesbian grandma (Elle) for help over her business-focused mother (Judy). Sage needs money for an abortion that she has scheduled at the end of the day.
The two women embark on a journey in Elle's 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer (which was Lily Tomlin's personal vehicle) to get the money. The journey they take is of remembrances of Elle's life and the people whose lives she touched.
The movie is full of sharp wit delivered perfectly by the talented cast but the amazing Lily Tomlin steals the show. When I was first looking for movies to schedule for Pride month I wanted half of the movies to be centered on women. So I picked two films that offered entirely different takes on lesbians and the power of women. The first was Bound, a film I had seen a couple of times.
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