Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In good luck to you, Leo Grand, Emma Thompson plays a widow yearning to fulfill a desire |
| 0:09.1 | that somehow eluded her entire life in orgasm. |
| 0:13.4 | She sets about achieving her goal the only way she can imagine how, by herring a much younger, |
| 0:18.1 | highly attractive sex worker for a couple of hours. |
| 0:21.3 | Their time spent together turns out to be much more than transactional, however, and |
| 0:25.0 | to be about far more than just sex. |
| 0:26.9 | It's a quiet movie about intimacy, sex positivity, and generational divides. |
| 0:31.8 | And Thompson and her co-star, Del McCormick, give captivating performances. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm Aisha Harris and today we're talking about good luck to you, Leo Grand, on Pop |
| 0:40.2 | Culture Happier Hour from NPR. |
| 0:48.4 | Joining us today is NPR Arts Correspondent Mandelite Del Barco. |
| 0:51.5 | Hi Mandelite, welcome. |
| 0:53.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:54.0 | Hi! |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, folks. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Joe Madelite. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome back, kids. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome back. |
| 1:00.0 | Good luck to you, Leo Grand. |
| 1:04.2 | Emma Thompson plays Nancy Stokes, a retired school teacher, who's husband of three decades |
| 1:08.5 | has died just a couple years earlier. |
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