Closing Night: Thelma
Guests Expected
Director Josh Margolin, actor June Squibb, and producers Chris Kaye and Zoe Worth are expected to attend the Premier Theater screening.
Description
A steely and hysterical June Squibb sinks her teeth into her first leading role as a 93-year-old widow proudly living alone who falls prey to a cash-grabbing hoax. Vowing to bring the perpetrators to justice, Thelma sets out on an odyssey across an evocatively lensed Los Angeles landscape, accompanied by her old friend Ben (a scene-stealing Richard Roundtree in his final performance). Together, the determined duo wield their charm, social invisibility, and elder-age devices to overcome numerous obstacles. Director Josh Margolin overtly and subtly draws on action-hero genre cliches, playing with traditional set-ups to illustrate Thelma’s agency while also placing Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible directly into the plot. Margolin is firmly at the helm of this hilarious romp but the film belongs to Squibb, as the Oscar®-nominated performer imbues Thelma with a hunger to be seen and understood by those who love her most, something we never grow out of.
Josh Margolin received a BA in theater from Wesleyan University. He is an actor and improv comic, who was part of One Night Stand: An Improvised Musical, as well as a director and screenwriter. He created, wrote, and starred in My Boyfriend Is a Robot (2017) and co-wrote and starred in Deep Murder (2019). He made his directorial debut with a short film, A Dentist (2011). Thelma is his first feature.
Film Details
Language English
Year 2023
Premiere California
Runtime 97
Country USA
Director Josh Margolin
Executive Producer June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Tobias Gutzwiler
Writer Josh Margolin
Editor Josh Margolin
Cinematographer David Bolen
Music Nick Chuba
Cast June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree
Closed Captions Closed Captions are not yet confirmed for this program
Audio Description Audio Descriptions are not yet confirmed for this program
American Sign Language (ASL) Interpretation American Sign Language Interpretation is not currently scheduled for this film
