The movie"Thelma" follows a 93-year-old grandmother on a quest to get back the $10,000 she lost after falling victim to an imposter scam call.
The scam attempt that happened to the real Thelma, the now 103-year-old grandmother of writer and director Josh Margolin, was almost identical to the movie. In the movie, Thelma goes on an epic adventure involving a scooter and a gun to track down her scammers and get her money back. Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly
"You have to find a way to kind of process the feelings of watching somebody go through something like this, but also to do so in a thoughtful way, so that when you do talk to them about it, you don't kind of add to the shame and embarrassment that I believe is probably already there," Margolin said.