Writer/Director Paul Weitz wrote the sublime road comedy Grandma for Lily Tomlin, and now at the suggestion of Tomlin, he wrote a new film for both Lily and Jane Fonda, one with characters unrecogn…
Fonda plays Claire who is attending the funeral of her old college roommate, Joyce. She meets again with another college friend Evie and confesses her plans don’t include just attending a funeral to pay respects, but also to kill Joyce’s husband Howard who on a drunken night decades ago, and beknownst to his wife, inflicted sexual trauma on Claire, a horrendous experience she never told Joyce about, but like so many victims of sexual abuse has kept it pent up, in her case for 46 years.
Tomlin’s caustic Evie has her own showcase moments at the funeral and then a reception with revelations of her own that are guaranteed to shock the gathered mourners.
The title says it all, these are all characters who are “moving on”, but have to erase the wounds of the past before they can do that. Weitz is a writer who can take an outrageous idea and somehow make it plausible which is exactly what he does here. Who hasn’t wanted to kill someone at one point in our lives, but of course would never act on it? Claire convinces you she means business, but this is no over-the-top movie character but a believable older woman out to right a wrong. Fonda goes deep on this one.
No one can deliver a zinger like Tomlin and Weitz has given her some choice material. By the way, their 2014 moviewhich details Tomlin driving her granddaughter played by Julia Garner in order to get an abortion would be ripe for re-release in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade. McDowell, with long ago memories ofcan play a creep with the best of them and socks this insufferable guy home.
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