Duty Free

[Available on various VOD platforms and played May 6 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups.] Sian-Pierre Regis's touching, inspirational, low-key, heartwarming, 73-minute, 2020 documentary that follows the struggles of his energetic, young-at-heart, divorced, 75-year-old, British immigrant mother Rebecca Danigelis, who cares for her schizophrenic son, to find a job after she is fired as a longtime housekeeper at a Boston hotel, and her television journalist son helps her check off items on her bucket-list, including join Instagram, milk a bovine, take hip-hop classes, reunite with her daughter Joanne in England, visit her sister Elsie's grave, bake a cake with niece Layla, and skydive in Hawaii, to renew her spirit.
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