Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Release: Lucky Grandma

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Laurence
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Digital, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 11, 2020
Price: DVD $13.29, Blu-ray $19.89, Instant Video $12.00
Studio: Kino Lorber

Director Sasie Sealy brings to life a dark comedy-drama about immigrant life, the vulnerabilities of aging, and an unexpected friendship in the 2019 comedy-drama Lucky Grandma.

In the heart of Chinatown, New York, an ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year-old Grandma (Tsai Chin) is eager to live life as an independent woman, despite the worry of her family. When a local fortune teller (Wai Ching Ho) predicts a most auspicious day in her future, Grandma decides to head to the casino and goes all in, only to land herself on the wrong side of luck… suddenly attracting the attention of some local gangsters. Desperate to protect herself, Grandma employs the services of a bodyguard from a rival gang (Corey Ha) and soon finds herself right in the middle of a Chinatown gang war.

Set in alleyways and underground mahjong parlors with a cast of richly drawn characters (including Taiwanese movie star Corey Ha), Lucky Grandma serves as a love letter to Chinatown and an homage to all the badass elderly women who inhabit it.

And, yeah, they’re out there. Just ask my granny….

The discs also include a making-of featurette as a supplement.

Buy or Rent Lucky Grandma

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.