Senior Moment

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Senior Moment
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Directed byGiorgio Serafini
Written by
  • Kurt Brungardt
  • Christopher Momenee
Produced byGina G. Goff
Starring
CinematographyMarco Cappetta
Edited byColleen Halsey
Music by Laura Karpman
Production
company
Goff Productions
Distributed by
Release date
  • March 26, 2021 (2021-03-26)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Senior Moment is a 2021 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Giorgio Serafini and starring William Shatner, Jean Smart and Christopher Lloyd. [1]

Contents

It was released on March 26, 2021, by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment and Screen Media Films.

Plot

Victor Martin is a retired Air Force pilot and lifelong bachelor who relives his youth cruising in his mint condition, silver, 1955 Porsche 356, usually accompanied by his best friend, retired jeweler Sal Spinelli. Victor and Sal encounter Pablo Torres, driving a vintage Chevrolet Impala lowrider and challenge him to a friendly drag race. However, Pablo is aware that there is a cop hiding ahead, and proceeds within the speed limit, letting Victor get pulled over. The police officer recognizes Victor as a well known character in the community and lets him off with a stern warning.

On a subsequent evening, Victor and Sal encounter Pablo again and actually drag race. Victor loses control and spins out and is charged with reckless driving. His license is revoked and his Porsche impounded as a result.

Forced to ride the bus, Victor meets Caroline Summers who owns an organic cafe called the "Cuckoo Cafe" and heads a grassroots organization to save the endangered desert tortoise. Victor particularly wins her heart when he and Sal, using Sal's expertise as a jeweler, repair a 19th century cuckoo clock, a family heirloom of Caroline's, which had not functioned for years, but for which her Cafe is named.

Victor's relationship with Caroline is not without rough patches. Victor's worst faux-pas is accusing Caroline of having an affair with Diego Lozana, a successful painter. It turns out that Caroline spends a lot of time with him because he is the main benefactor of her charity to save the tortoise, and she has commissioned him to paint a partially nude portrait of her (which resulted in Victor seeing her in a state of undress in his presence). It turns out that Diego is gay and happily married to a man. Victor must humbly apologize to Caroline.

Victor, twice, believes he sees his Porsche being driven in the area, and with the help of Pablo, who has befriended him and feels somewhat responsible for Victor losing his car and license, catches the private security guard at the impound lot illegally renting it out. The excitement and anger of this discovery cause Victor to have a heart attack and Pablo drives him to the hospital in the Porsche. Theft charges for taking the Porsche from the impound lot are dropped due to the emergency of the heart attack.

Eventually, Victor passes the necessary written and behind the wheel tests to get his driver's license reinstated. He sells his Porsche to Pablo for far below its value as thanks for saving his life, and buys a BMW i8 to replace it, and Sal is seen cruising in Pablo's lowrider, apparently having bought it.

Through their relationship, Victor develops a passion for saving the desert tortoise, and Caroline develops a guilty pleasure of riding in fast cars, despite her environmentalist leanings.

Cast

Production

Shatner was cast in the film in March 2017. [3] [4] [5] Lloyd was cast in April 2017. [6] [7] Smart and Lopez were cast in May 2017. [8]

The film was shot in Palm Springs, California in 2017. [9]

Release

In January 2021, Screen Media Films acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film, which was released in theaters and on demand in March 2021. [10] [11]

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 21% approval rating from critics based on 19 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2/10. [12] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 41 out of 100, based on reviews from 5 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [13]

Glenn Kenny of The New York Times wrote: "This is the kind of movie that is usually defended with one word: 'harmless'." [14] Richard Roeper of Chicago Sun-Times gave it 2 out of 4 and wrote: "Built of sitcom-style hijinks and pretty light on those, it's barely a movie..." [15]

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