What to Watch the Week of January 29, 2023: '80 for Brady' Scores, and Here's Why

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, I joined her for lunch, where we talked about everything from the sequel to Book Club () to her favorite vacation spots. She also mentioned that later in the week she'd be returning to the set of 80 for Brady, her new movie (out this Friday, February 3) co-starring fellow legends , , , and Super Bowl legend Tom Brady.I thought she was kidding.

She wasn't. This was an actual movie, she said, produced by Brady, about a group of real-life friends who just happen to all have their AARP card and take a wild trip to the Super Bowl to see their favorite player.

I was sold. Honestly, I would have watched those four women go grocery shopping for all I cared.While we know there's an audience for movies () and series (The Golden Girls, ) featuring women over 60, Hollywood is often slower to catch up.

And when they do, they run the risk of making caricatures of said women, focusing on easy jokes and outdated tropes. It's impossible to entirely get away from, but in 80 for Brady, co-writers Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern made a concentrated effort to write these women—ranging in age from 75 to 90—exactly as they are: full of life, whip smart, and also not immune to this thing called aging. “We made a concerted effort to stay away from mean-spirited old person jokes, like adult diapers, fiber pills, walkers,” Haskins and Halpern tell Glamour. “We didn’t want to condescend to our characters.