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‘Jimpa’ Sundance review: John Lithgow stars as a gay grandpa in sappy film that tries too hard

Running time: 123 minutes. Not yet rated.Earnest sentimentality and a family casually yakking about sexual kinks make for strange bedfellows in “Jimpa,” an off-kilter dramedy that had its world premiere Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival. Director Sophie Hyde’s semi-autobiographical movie about an Australian mom, dad and nonbinary teen who go to visit their gay grandfather in Amsterdam didn’t have me feeling prudish, though, so much as enormously skeptical throughout.
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24.01 / 21:55
‘Jimpa’ Sundance review: John Lithgow stars as a gay grandpa in sappy film that tries too hard
Running time: 123 minutes. Not yet rated.Earnest sentimentality and a family casually yakking about sexual kinks make for strange bedfellows in “Jimpa,” an off-kilter dramedy that had its world premiere Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival. Director Sophie Hyde’s semi-autobiographical movie about an Australian mom, dad and nonbinary teen who go to visit their gay grandfather in Amsterdam didn’t have me feeling prudish, though, so much as enormously skeptical throughout.
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