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So was Ariel the Old Grandma equivalent of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl?


What with the quirky sense of humor and the mail stealing and using other people's bathrooms just to get to know them etc.

I may be love's bitch but at least I'm man enough to admit it. -Spike

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I would say definitely yes.

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Oh absolutely! only Ann-Margaret was only FIFTY ONE when this was made -- to say she was a "grandma" is biologically possible but pretty lame.

She was young enough (easily) to be Matthau's DAUGHTER.....

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Yeah, she's definitely an MPDG, but she isn't nearly the oldest one in the movies: that would have to be Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude, a strange cult film from 1971 about a romance between a young man and an elderly woman (who's supposed to be 79 in the film; Gordon, I think, was around 75 at the time).

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