Nebraska: No Damp Squibb
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if 84-year old June Squibb won an award for Nebraska?
One of the best films I’ve seen for a while, this road movie, of sorts, is beautifully shot in black and white and directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt). Squibb plays Kate Grant the
foul-mouthed wife of Woody (Bruce Dern) an old drunk, who’s losing his
marbles and believes he’s the lucky recipient of a million dollar prize from one of those direct-mail advertising flyers. ‘I never even knew the son-of-a-bitch wanted to be a millionaire,’ Kate declares on finding out about the scam prize, ‘He should have thought about that years ago and worked for it!’ And there’s an hilarious graveyard scene, where all Woody’s dead female relatives are summed up as ‘sluts’ and ‘whores’, after which Kate flashes her nether regions at the gravestone of a one-time, would-be suitor and exclaims, ‘You see this? You could have had all this to yourself and look what you missed out on!’
Brilliant.
Discussion (7 Comments)
I think I saw a trailer for this, and I'd forgotten about it. Thanks for the reminder! I need to see it because I, my siblings, my parents, their siblings, two grandparents, and almost all my cousins were born in Nebraska!
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This one's on my short list!