My Old Lady

"He's in the will. She's in the way."

Nov 21 2014 PG-13 1h 47m
Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.

Plot

Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline), a penniless fifty-odd-year-old New Yorker, lands in Paris. Cynical, and at the end of his tether, he looks forward to selling the mansion house his late father owned in the Marais district. But what he finds out there just appalls him: his secretive dad had never told him he had acquired the property as a life lease, a typically French custom of which he never heard. As a consequence, not only will poor Mathias be unable to sell the house into cash (at least as long as Mathilde Girard (Dame Maggie Smith) stays alive), but he will have to pay the old lady a pension as part of the bargain.

Written by

Israel Horovitz, Jonathan Mason

Directed by

Israel Horovitz

Cast

Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith

Crew

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Production Countries

United Kingdom, France, United States of America

Production Companies

BBC Films, Cohen Media Group, Deux Chevaux Films

Languages

English

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination

Trailers
My Old Lady Official Trailer 1 (2014) - Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith Movie HD
Scores
# of Votes
10,715
Average Rating
6.4 out of 10
Metascore
52
Popularity
NA