Queen Bees
[Opens June 11 in theaters and available on various VOD platforms, and played June 9 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups.] When a flower-loving widow (Ellen Burstyn) accidentally sets fire to her kitchen after locking herself out of her house and reluctantly moving temporarily into a retirement village with the help of her overprotective, divorced daughter (Elizabeth Mitchell) and kindhearted grandson (Matthew Barnes) in Michael Lembeck's entertaining, heartwarming, well-acted, humor-sprinkled, predictable, star-dotted (Christopher Lloyd, French Stewart, Alec Mapa, Courtney Gains, Ricky Russert, and Cindy Hogan), 100-minute comedy, she finds herself eventually befriended by a clique of standoffish, bridge-playing women (Ann-Margret, Jane Curtin, and Loretta Devine) and attracted to a smooth-talking widower (James Caan).
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