Kate is a young woman visiting her grandmother to talk about her mother "Eve" but instead she surprisingly ends up as both chauffeur and chaperone on her grandmother's romantic dinner date with a widower named Joe.
Direction
Portman's debut shows confident visual storytelling in cramped spaces.
Acting
Bacall and Gazzara's late-career chemistry is absolutely electric.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes politeness until it snaps.
Director
Natalie Portman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Portman made this at 27 while finishing Harvard, proving she was Hollywood's most overqualified student.
This was Bacall's final screen performance—she died six years later, making her line about time feel almost unbearably prescient.
US
