How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
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This Oscar-shortlisted Thai blockbuster is an affecting look at modern family dynamics and generation gaps
Thailand | Comedy-Drama | 2024 | 125 minutes
In Thai w/ English Subtitles
Director: Pat Boonnitipat
Screenwriters: Thodsapon Thiptinnakorn, Pat Boonnitipat
Starring: Putthipong “Billkin” Assaratanakul, Usha Seamkhum, Sanya Kunakorn, Sarinrat Thomas
Film Source: Well Go USA
SYNOPSIS:
M is a lazy college dropout. When he hears that his grandmother has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, he becomes her career in hopes of inheriting her fortune. However, M’s grandmother isn’t an easy one to please.
Despite its seemingly cynical setup, this brilliantly insightful drama finds plenty of laughs and tears while exposing everything that families don’t talk about when they talk about family. Not only was the film a critical and commercial hit across Asia, it is also the first Thai film to be shortlisted in the final 15 of the Academy Awards’ Best International Film race.
Pat Boonnitipat, Director
Pat Boonnitipat is a Thai film director who has worked primarily in television and documentary series, specializing in teenage stories in particular. After graduating from Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Communication Arts, he began working as a behind-the-scenes photographer/cameraman for hit television series such as Hormones Season 2 (2014) and Hormones Season 3: The Final Season (2015). After wrapping the final season of Hormones, he was chosen by director Piyachart Thong-Uam to assist on the production of his then-next project, Diary of Tootsies Season 1 (2016). After being impressed by Pat’s directorial instinct, Piyachart would later allow him to co-direct the series, earning Pat his first directorial credit. At the same time, Pat also worked on Let Me Grow (2016), a documentary series exploring the lives of teenagers who are addicted to video games. In 2017, he wrote and directed the SOS Skate segment of Project S The Series. His breakthrough came in 2020, when producers Jira Maligool and Vanridee Pongsittisak approached him about the possibility of remaking and adapting the global hit Thai film, Bad Genius (2017) into television series, which became Bad Genius The Series. The series won Best TV Drama/Series, Best Screenplay, and Best Director at the 17th Komchadluek Awards and Creative Beyond Border Award at the 2021 Asia Contents Awards. Noticing his sensitive approach to directing actors, the producers of Bad Genius The Series teamed up with him once again on How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024), a personal project developed from the original idea of screenwriter Thodsapon Thiptinnakorn. He will be making his feature directorial debut with this film.
Screening Date:
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Showtime:
7:30 p.m.
Doors open 30 minutes before screening.
Location:
AMC NEWCITY14
1500 N. Clybourn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60610
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