THELMA (2024) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Josh Margolin
June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree,
Parker Posey, Clark Gregg, Malcolm McDowell
When an old woman named Thelma loses $10,000 in a telephone scam, her family starts to think about moving her to a different level of care. Thelma, faced with the everyday issues of aging, has a different idea, and takes off on a mission to track down the scammers and get her money back. On the plausibility scale, this lands somewhere between highly unlikely and no way in hell, and while it's nicely cast and acted, it's way too cute. The French movie "Driving Madeleine" covered similar material with more subtlety and restraint. Richard Roundtree's last film.
