High school never really ends: all that social anxiety and clique bitchiness just takes on a new form.
Queen Bees features a cast of senior Hollywood legends playing the brassy residents of a retirement home: new octogenarian on the block Ellen Burstyn works her way up to the popular girls’ table, and maybe even finds love with spry 81-year-old James Caan.
Queen Bees
Screening now in Australian cinemas, Queen Bees is a welcome reunion of some famous faces who may have only played supporting roles lately. Jane Curtin, Loretta Divine, and Ann-Margret rule the retirement village as the titular clique and Caan and Christopher Lloyd play some potential love interests.
I don’t mean to be rude but like…I assumed Ann-Margret had died. So it’s awesome to see her alive and flirting with a buff aquarobics instructor in the trailer below.
Our lead Ellen Burstyn is probably the most impressive get of all, still starring as a likeable ingenue at the age of 88. This is a woman who’s faced prescription drug addiction and a possessed daughter amongst many, many other obstacles on screen: of course she can absolutely smash it as the Lindsay Lohan role, if Queen Bees really is an old-people version of Mean Girls.
