Screen/Society--"How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies" (Pat Boonnitipat, 2024)

HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES
(Pat Boonnitipat, 2024, 125 min, Thailand, Thai w/ English subtitles, DCP)

-- Introduced by Prof. Ara Wilson (Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies/Cultural Anthropology)

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance. This deeply affecting portrait offers an honest look at a family grappling with clashing values and dynamics as they face the impending loss of their matriarch.

"[T]he movie's sunny, gracious portrait of family life will still likely have you thinking of your own family long before the credits roll." - rogerebert.com

"[HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS] is designed to play on the heartstrings; but when a film is plucked with such dexterity, warmth, and tenderness it is a sweet symphony filling the soul instead of jangling noise hoping for a reaction." - Nadine Whitney, Alliance of Women Film Journalists