From writer/director Paul Weitz (ABOUT A BOY), this funny and poignant mother-granddaughter story stars Lily Tomlin (in a career-defining performance) as Elle, a recently widowed - and somewhat cynical - academic.
When Elle’s teenage granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner, THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER) comes to her for help, the two set out on a day-long road trip that forces them to face Elle’s past and Sage’s future head-on.
Anchored by Tomlin’s tour-de-force performance, GRANDMA is the type of character study we rarely see in modern mainstream American cinema: the story of two women, from different generations, finding common ground and having each other’s backs.
With a brilliant supporting cast that includes Laverne Cox (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK), Judy Greer (JURASSIC WORLD, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT) and Marcia Gay Harden (50 SHADES OF GREY, THE NEWSROOM) – GRANDMA is an honest look at female relationships of all kinds.
Countries
United States- Festivals
- Sundance Film Festival 2015, Tribeca Film Festival 2015
- Director
- Paul Weitz
- Executive Producer
- Stephanie Meurer, Dan Balgoyen, Renfrew
- Producer
- Paul Weitz, Andrew Miano, Terry Dougas, Paris Kasidokostas Latsis
- Screenwriter
- Paul Weitz
- Cinematographer
- Tobias Datum
- Editor
- Jonathan Corn
- Production Design
- Cindy Chao, Michele Yu
- Music
- Joel P. West
- Cast
- Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer, Laverne Cox, Sam Elliott