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Helen (Ellen Burstyn) has been on her own since her husband passed three years earlier. She’s relatively self-sustaining and as sharp as the proverbial tack, give or take a nasty habit of locking herself out of the house. It’s one thing to make a mistake in the morning, another to call in the fire department to break in and extinguish that night’s dinner after it has set the kitchen ablaze. It’s at her daughter Laura’s (Elizabeth Mitchell) insistence that Helen checks into nearby Pine Grove, a “swanky old people’s home,” just long enough for the structural damage to be repaired. But a renovation that was originally slated to take no longer than one month stretches on for several. Then Helen’s initial reluctance about the place begins to thaw, thanks to her acceptance by members of the titular power clique and a romance with newcomer Dan (James Caan), the only lips to touch hers since becoming a widow. Every spinster grade-school teacher that ever made your life m ....
June 12, 2021 Share There are two genres I tend to approach with extra caution: Slashers and retirement home comedies. Both have found me covering my eyes for not entirely unrelated reasons. Yes, the dismembering is more metaphorical in the latter, but sometimes it’s equally hard to stomach seeing a great group of actors reduced to incontinence jokes. Also, I’m still recovering from the Diane Keaton movie “Poms.” The latest retirement home comedy is “ Queen Bees,” about Helen (played by the majestic Ellen Burstyn), who reluctantly moves into a senior community while her beautiful suburban house is being fixed up after an accidental kitchen fire. Helen is still sharp and active and capable of living alone, but her real estate agent daughter (Elizabeth Mitchell) just seems to want to get the inevitable transition to out of the way. Helen, for her part, suspects her daughter just wants to sell her home and she may not be wrong. ....