Your grandpa busts out of a nursing home with secrets, a gun, and a very questionable business proposal.
An octogenarian rogue named Arthur enlists his grandson Kevin to help him escape a nursing home. What ensues, as Kevin chauffeurs him from Arizona to Canada, goes way off the map. The two pick up a mysterious and dangerous woman and as the miles tick by, love begins to bloom, bullets fly, and Arthur tries to convince his grandson to carry on the family whiskey business. As they approach their destination, Arthur reveals he has secrets and sins to atone for on this madcap journey to redemption.
Acting
Bruce Dern doing what he does best: fragile menace.
Writing
Grandson-grandpa banter that actually feels earned.
Direction
Scoular keeps the desert vast and the stakes personal.
Director
William Scoular
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bruce Dern was 86 during filming, making this essentially method casting for an octogenarian escape artist.
The Arizona-to-Canada route mirrors classic American road movies but inverts them: south-to-north as escape from warmth into moral coldness, not freedom.
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