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Granny Smith
GRANNY SMITH
Log Line
A twisted Mary Poppins who’s targeted a dysfunctional family with a desperate plan. Beneath Granny’s disguise is Sadie Smith, a vital 60 year old who has fallen on hard times since her faded rock
star partner Rusty left on a ‘70’s revival tour, abandoning her to bailiffs who repossessed their home and leaving her in the dreary surroundings of the ‘Pearly Gates Residential Home’.
Synopsis
Sadie resists the idea that she has anything in common with the residents, insisting that her stay is only temporary. As three of the ladies try to help Sadie adjust to her new situation, she can’t help but be touched by their kindness. When her attempts to breathe new life into the home with vodka bingo and a party which ends in tragedy, Sadie has a crisis of identity. She can’t face fading away in a care home, but can’t pretend that she’s still 21. But with no savings or family to look after her, what are her options?
The residents are resigned to their fates, but in Sadie they see the opportunity to vicariously fulfil their fantasies about being part of a loving family. The ladies transform Sadie into the ultimate granny and, armed with her Granny Bible of accumulated wisdom, send her into the bosom of a family who they think need some old fashioned values and granny hugs.
It’s a struggle for Sadie to maintain her disguise. She has many vices and knows more about rock star excesses than telling bedtime stories or cooking a traditional family meal. Although they think they want a granny, what the Dingwall’s need is the advice that only a rock chick can give them. When she learns the secret of playing granny but dispensing rock chick advice, Granny empowers each of the Dingwall’s to take control of their destinies. In the warmth of their love, the cynical splinter of ice in Granny’s heart melts.
When she discovers that Barry is skint, Sadie uses her experience of setting up rock gigs to team up the old ladies of Pearly Gates with the Dingwall’s to launch ‘Adopt A Granny’. In the middle of the all singing, all dancing show designed to highlight what the old ladies can offer adoptive families, Rusty returns from his tour; their money problems solved by his rekindled fame.
Granny is torn. Going with Rusty will mean a return to the fantasy bubble of pretending they are still in the 1970’s. But how can she stay with the family she’s come to love when she feels that she’s only won their hearts through deceit?
When the Dingwall’s tell her that being part of their family has released her ‘inner Granny’, a new Sadie is revealed; the best of Granny and Sadie; a ‘Glam ma’ who is proud of her age and determined to live her life to the full.