Poms is an American comedy, directed by Zara Hayes, starring Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Pam Grier and others. The plot is quite simple: Martha (Dianne Keaton) is an older woman dying of cancer. She decides to sell her apartment and move to a retirement community to die. Once in the retirement community she decides to start a cheerleading group, with older women at her community. Diane Keaton, which has become one of the key American "geromovies" actresses, finally adopts a slightly different role than may of her previous geromovies (e.g.
On the upside, this is overall a fun movie to watch. Not only an anti-ageist movie, which directly confronts age-based stereotypes related to older adults, but also a very feminist-empowering movie, which directly confronts sexist stereotypes about older women, sexuality, and gender roles in old age. It is enjoyable, and it raises various important age-related issues such as age discrimination, life in retirement communities, end of life, and the significance of friendship and personal relationships in old age.
However, on the downside, the movie, eventually, is very predictable: you can know from the start how the plot will develop, where the film is going, and how it will end. There is really nothing original or new (other from the "older women being cheerleaders), and it does not go beyond being a "nice" movie - nothing more and nothing else.
So, to simply enjoy a fun "ageivist" movie - it's fine; but for a generator of an interesting class discussion on aging and ageism - there are much better geromovies.
USA
Year: 2019
Director: Zara Hayes
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