Paul McGuigan (Push/Wicker Park) new's film which details the last years of Gloria Grahame (an Oscar winner for The Bad & the Beautiful) when she decided to do stage roles while having a love affair w/a much younger beau in 1979. The peerless Annette Bening & Jaime Bell (Billy Eliot all grown up) star in this May/December romance which garners small rewards as opposed to a more overblown version which could've been made. Using theatrical devices to tell the story (a character leaves one room in Britain & enters another in California) the focus is on this odd pair, which shouldn't work as per their peers' beliefs but their relationship chugs along in spite of itself. A tad on the obvious side but the performances save the day. Vanessa Redgrave is a welcome treat when she shows up as Bening's mother.