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Film Screening: "How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies" (Pat Boonnitipat, 2024)

Directed by Pat Boonnitipat, 2024, 125 min, Thailand, in Thai w/ English subtitles

Pre-screening introduction by Professor Ara Wilson (Cultural Anthropology).

About the film

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.

Critical views

“ [How to Make Millions] renders universal the central message of cherishing those we love while there is still time.” – Variety

“[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

Film trailer