I'd love to have been with Lily Tomlin when she read this script - after just a few pages she must have thought 'Yes!' especially with lines like "I like being old. Young people are stupid."
Who Weitz? He wrote Antz and adapted About a Boy. This is brilliant, we learn about her in bits as we go along. It's also commendably (almost shockingly) short.
Lily is terrific and the moment where she attacks her granddaughter's truly foul 'boyfriend' is an absolute delight. The girl is Julia Garner (The Perks of being a Wallflower, Mary Marcy May Marlene) and she'll go far. With Judy Greer, Laverne Cox, Elizabeth Peña, Sam Elliott, Marcia Gay Harden and (didn't recognise her again) Colleen Camp ('Bonobo' customer).
I hadn't heard of Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique' either.
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