Thelma (Hulu)

[g5000]

My wife and daughter both work in senior memory care and in hospice. They have validated this movie as 100 percent accurate. All of the people you see in the nursing homes in this movie are just like real life.

This movie director's grandmother was victimized by con artists, and that was his inspiration for this movie. There is a short clip of his grandma during the final credits.

Unfortunately, the con in this movie is all too commonly used against the elderly.

In this movie, the victim, Thelma, decides to track down the predators and get her money back.

From your perspective and mine, this is not an action movie. But from the perspective of a 93 year old woman, this is action-packed.

Hilarious slow motion action, but action nonetheless.

Even better, Thelma's involuntary partner in getting revenge is none other than Richard Roundtree.

You know. Shaft. The original. Richard Roundtree, man. Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about?

Thelma and Ben (Roundtree) are the only people with any spine in this movie. Not even the bad guys have balls, which is always the case with con artists.

A great movie worthy of Rotten Tomatoes' 98 percent critic/83 percent audience rating.

 

[whitehall]

Fiction based on a phone scam? The"Beekeeper" is better.

 

[hondo 50]

keep your loved one outa nursing homes, holmes

 

[g5000]

keep your loved one outa nursing homes, holmes

In one of the memory care facilities where my wife and daughter worked, the families of most of the patients never visit, even though they live close by.

When the patients are "transititioning" and my wife would call the families to let them know the time was near, they wouldn't show up.

When the patient dies, only then do the children show up, and put on a big show of grief. Wailing and shrieking and sobbing, tears streaming down their faces.

******* self-absorbed assholes.


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[iamwhatiseem]

In one of the memory care facilities where my wife and daughter worked, the families of most of the patients never visit, even though they live close by.

When the patients are "transitioning" and my wife would call the families to let them know the time was near, they wouldn't show up.

When the patient dies, only then do the children show up, and put on a big show of grief. Wailing and shrieking and sobbing, tears streaming down their faces.

******* self-absorbed assholes.


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It is a great shame on western society as a whole. Ageism is the last "ism" that is very much alive and well.
Selfishness is deeply ingrained in our culture, and is getting worse. Elderly abandonment is as common as rain. There are two kinds -
1) They still live in their homes alone, and only on rare occasions does anyone ever visit them.
2) They have financial or health problems and they end up in a nursing home - and abandoned even more.

My mom lives with us. She is 84 now, lives downstairs in the walk out basement. Which sounds bad, but it has a wall on one side that has large windows etc. Anyway - unless I call and say something to people, no one comes to see her for months at a time. Also have to remind them to call sometimes. She can easily go several weeks and no one even calls.

Pretty sad statement about western culture.

 

[g5000]

It is a great shame on western society as a whole. Ageism is the last "ism" that is very much alive and well.
Selfishness is deeply ingrained in our culture, and is getting worse. Elderly abandonment is as common as rain. There are two kinds -
1) They still live in their homes alone, and only on rare occasions does anyone ever visit them.
2) They have financial or health problems and they end up in a nursing home - and abandoned even more.

My mom lives with us. She is 84 now, lives downstairs in the walk out basement. Which sounds bad, but it has a wall on one side that has large windows etc. Anyway - unless I call and say something to people, no one comes to see her for months at a time. Also have to remind them to call sometimes. She can easily go several weeks and no one even calls.

Pretty sad statement about western culture.

My mother passed suddenly in 2016. My father died in 2020.

My kid brother took care of our father at home as he slowly faded away with dementia.

It was very hard work, and my brother and his wife were amazing in their care for him.

My parents' house is huge and sits on Long Island Sound. I live far away and that is why my brother ended up with dad.

Since he had done the heavy lifting with dad, I told my brother the property was all his and that I would not challenge in probate court. I also made sure our other brother would not challenge either.

My kid brother earned it.