Poms (2019)

POMS  (2019)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Zara Hayes
    Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Pam Grier,
    Alisha Boe, Charlie Tahan, Celia Weston,
    Phyllis Somerville, Carol Sutton, Bruce McGill
A woman named Martha, played by Diane Keaton, moves out of the city apartment she's lived in for 47 years and into a retirement community somewhere in Georgia. Why she's picked that particular place to move to is a mystery. It's exactly the kind of immaculately maintained, ruthlessly regimented nightmare that makes seniors want to stay in their homes forever. One of the many rules Martha runs into there is that every resident has to belong to at least one club. There are 100 of them, and if you don't find one you like, you can start a club of your own. Which is what Martha does. She starts a cheerleading club. That's the setup, with one key wrinkle: Martha's dying of cancer. So you've got a feel-good movie with cute old people, a terminal illness and a climactic competition that allows the plucky but decidedly not young cheerleaders to overcome preposterous odds and triumph: cookie-cutter movie-making formula #26. For all that, the movie's not hard to watch, especially Keaton, who looks fantastic at 72. Just don't expect much in the way of surprises. And bring a handkerchief.