📺 Cure it with Movies/Books: Grandmothers

Grandparents (and grandmothers in particular) are, to me, one of the best things in the world! They are always smiling while trying to talk sense into their grandchildren, hide in plain sight the best chocolate bars and all have one or two favorite life's anecdotes they constantly love to tell...and you can't do anything if not just stay there and listen.

Today's post is about sweet, modern, badass as well as negligent and bossy grandmothers in books and movies. 

BOOKS

When your beloved grandmother is sick, it doesn't matter if you fought and haven't been talking in years...you take the first plane and fly back to Singapore. This is what happens to Nick Young, along with a whole range of family plottings and secrets that he has to uncover in the third book of the Crazy Rich Asians series, Crazy Rich People (my review HERE).
A young Swedish girl embarks on a journey to meet the people her late and beloved Granny knew and discovers who she really was thanks to the mark she left in those people's lives. 

The Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar trilogy by Chilean writer Isabel Allende has been a favorite of mine since the first time I've read it...mainly because of Kate, the protagonist's fearless and reckless grandmother, who's a reporter for International Geographic Magazine and will drag her nephew Alex along in her working trips to the Amazon, Himalaya, and Africa. Whenever I was reading about their adventures and her sassy comments I've always found myself thinking "When I grow old, I want to be like her"!

MOVIES

What if you find out your father was a prince and your grandmother the Queen of a small state in Europe? And she's in town to get to know you and to train you to become the next sovereign? That's what happens to Mia Thermopolis in the 2001 hit movie "The Princess Diaries".

Another wise and estranged grandmother is Shirley MacLaine in "In Her Shoes" (2005), where she reconnects with her two nieces after years and helps them rebuild their broken relationship.

Same year, same actress, same role: Shirley MacLaine is again a grandmother and the possible muse for the famous The Graduate's character Mrs. Robinson in "Rumor Has It..."

From San Francisco to Idaho to prevent her own rebellious daughter to break any more rules, Felicity Huffman takes Lindsay Lohan to live with her grandmother Jane Fonda, a woman with an unbreakable faith in God and hard work, in the 2007 movie "Georgia Rules"

A mourning lesbian grandmother and a 18 years old girl who needs money for an abortion...and for the same day's afternoon. A grandma/niece bonding story, filled with both tears and laughter in the 2016 movie "Grandma".
Sigourney Weaver plays the strick and impassive grandmother of a young boy who's dealing with his own mother's illness and bullies at school in the beautiful 2016 movie "A Monster Calls" (my review HERE).

These were the books and movies about grandmothers that came to mind, if you have more to add or any other suggestion, leave a comment!

Ph: goodreads.com & impawards.com