Wendy Ide 

The G review – OAP revenge thriller

Dale Dickey steals the show in this twisty tale of a not-so-helpless little old lady targeted by crooked legal guardians
  
  

Dale Dickey in The G.
‘Bullet hard’: Dale Dickey in The G. Photograph: Film PR handout undefined

The phenomenal Dale Dickey elevates a fairly generic Canadian OAP revenge movie, covering similar thematic territory to the Rosamund Pike-starring drama I Care a Lot. Dickey, whose sandpaper growl of a voice has never been put to better use, plays Ann (aka The G, for Granny), an elderly woman who is targeted by crooked, state-appointed legal guardians. Ann and her seriously ill husband are removed from their home and locked in a residential home, while her slippery legal guardian digs into her savings. But Ann is not the helpless little old lady that he thinks she is. She’s bullet-hard, knows her way around a variety of firearms and has an assortment of seriously dangerous people on speed dial. Enjoyably pulpy stuff.

• In UK and Irish cinemas now

Watch a trailer for The G.
 

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