Francesca Rudkin: It Ends With Us and How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

It Ends With Us  

Lily Bloom moves to Boston to chase her lifelong dream of opening her own business. A chance meeting with charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid soon sparks an intense connection, but as the two fall deeply in love, she begins to see sides of Ryle that remind her of her parents' relationship. When Lily's first love, Atlas Corrigan, suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with Ryle gets upended, leaving her with an impossible choice. 

 

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies  

A man quits work to care for dying grandmother, motivated by her fortune. He schemes to win her favor before she passes. 

 

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(00:45):
Right now, it is twenty two minutes to ten, and
speaking of watching good stuff, our film review of Francesca
Radkin is here this morning. Hey Francesca, good morning. We
have two films to recommend this morning. So let's start
off with a little bit of a listen to It
ends with Us.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
We all have an idea of what life can be.
That special connection you feel, that first kiss for fifteen seconds,
that's all it teakes to completely change everything.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Bye, Bam. It ends with us, Tell us about it, Franziska.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
So this has been highly anticipated by fans of author
Colleen Hooper. I am not a co host and I
haven't read the book, so I'm going to talk about
this purely from a film point of view. Books and
I did leave the very very pack cinema. I did
hear a lot of people talking about you know, a
lot of fans saying that they were pleased with how
this has been adapted. This is the romantic drama. The

(01:50):
book was released in twenty sixteen. It was sort of
a social media breakthrough book. It was huge on TikTok
and book talk and things and Coline Hooper from One
Together Right. It's quite fun, character driven, easy, sort of
to read stories, but she throws in quite serious issues
and in this particular case, domestic violence. To be honest,

(02:12):
on screen, it's a little bit of a weird mix.
You have these gorgeous, glamorous people seemingly living their best lives.
There is an element of fantasy to it. Our main
character is of course called Lily's Blossom Bloom, which is
probably an improbable I think Jack and So sort of
a Hollywood version of romance. But then you have these
serious issues like domestic violence, and to be fair, I

(02:33):
think the filmmakers have treated it with care and with
a great amount of respect. But coming back to that mix.
I think they're oversimplified a little bit, and I'm not
sure that when they're talking about abuse and trauma and
the silence that comes with it, it should be this palatable,
if that makes sense. I think Black Syde does really
good job as our leed character. She draws you in

(02:54):
this film. Didn't have an emotional hit for me, but
I did get on board and I did want things
to resolve well, you know, I wanted a good outcome.
I did kind of get involved. So I think they've
done a good job. I don't think it's a maybe
it's a little bit like the book you read that
you enjoy it and you move on.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, okay, Hey, I just think for people who maybe
missed it, do you want to explain what a co
ho is?

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh? That's they're the fantons.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Of Colleen Hoover. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that
a co hoo. Yeah, I'm into it. Yeah, Okay, they
could have come across.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
I imagine that you said could have come across.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, no, I just discovered to clarify these things exactly. Yes, okay, okay,
so that's it ends with us. So that showing in
cinemas at the moment. Also showing in cinema is How
to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. So this is a
bit of a comedy.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yeah yeah, well yeah, it's a gentle comedy. It's really beautiful.
It's it's screening now. I caught it this week and
it's kind of slipped under the radar a little bit,
and I wanted to tell people about it because it is.
It is really beautiful, it's moving, and it's been a
huge hit in Southeast Asia, and it's also become a
viral hit because people have been filming themselves crying at

(04:03):
the end of this film. So it's from time Land.
The theme is very universal. It's a film about bombs
within a family, and it looks at what sort of
happens to a family when a matriarch or a senior
member of a family is dying, and how the whole
family reacts and how they come together or don't and
you know, kind of participate. So the plot revolves around

(04:25):
his young university student m he's kind of dropped out
of school. He wants to be a game caster, but
he's pretty useless. That he's very aimless, and when his
grandmother gets it, he decides that he's going to go
and look after his grandmother because he's hoping that then
he'll become the number one family member and he will
inherit her house, and this is an easy way to
make some money. But she's a very switched on woman
with grandmother, and she knows her family and her children

(04:46):
and her grandchildren very very well, and so we kind
of progress throughout it. She becomes ald, We progress throughout
this illness, and it's just watching the way the different
family all kind of interact and move around this kind
of momentous sort of you know, moment in their lives,
and it's just really beautiful it is. There is just
gentle humor, lovely honesty, and as much as I knew

(05:09):
it was going to make me try and cry, I
did genuinely have it all here in my eyes. So
go to flex dot Coon and you'll be able to
find where it's screening around you. But it's definitely worth catching.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, Okay, cool, that's how to make millions before grandma dies.
I reckon, that's the best option for me this week.
Thanks Francisca. Francisca's first film was It Ends with Us,
and we'll put all of the details for those movies
up on our website, as we do with eeror thing
from our show on Saturday Mornings.

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