My Old Lady (2014) on Netflix
PG-1320141h 47mComedyDramaRomance
Mathias Gold, a broke New Yorker, inherits a Paris apartment from his estranged father and plans to sell it. Mathilde Girard lives there under a viager contract and will not move out.
- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb6.4/1011,053 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes62%
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Plot summary
Mathias Gold, a down-and-out New Yorker, learns that his estranged father has left him a large apartment in Paris. He spends everything he has on a plane ticket, meaning to sell it. Mathilde Girard lives there, though. His father bought the property from her 43 years earlier under a viager, a French contract that let her keep living in it; Mathias owes her €2,400 each month, for as long as she lives. She lets him stay, taking his father's gold watch as payment. Her daughter Chloé also lives there.
Cast
- Michael Burstinas Rabbi on Bicycle
- Raphaële Moutieras Woman on Bicycle
- Sophie Touitouas Female Opera Singer
- Christian Rauthas Furniture Dealer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about My Old Lady (2014)
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- Israel Horovitz, primarily a playwright and theater director, had directed only one previous film: 3 Weeks After Paradise, a 51-minute 2002 testimonial about his family's experiences after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. My Old Lady was his feature directorial debut.
- My Old Lady is based on Israel Horovitz's play of the same name. That play first appeared in 1996 at the Gloucester Stage Co., which Horovitz started in East Gloucester, Massachusetts.
