Wild Oats (2016)

When her dead husband’s life insurance check is a hundred times larger than she expected, Shirley MacLaine and her best friend Jessica Lange hightail it to the Canary Islands with insurance investigators, scam artists, and adult children all on their tail. The chemistry between MacLaine and Lange is sweet and them re-learning how to live their best lives is fun and inspirational. Unfortunately the rest of the film is too silly and drags on too long which weighs down a lot of the good feelings. It’s funny for me to see Howard Hesseman and Billy Connolly in a film together since I forever associate both of them with their teacher roles in Head of the Class.