In Jon Kasdan’s debut feature as a writer-director movie In the Land of Women, Adam Brody’s character, Carter Webb, an aspiring screenwriter in Los Angeles, is back in the market after his girlfriend unexpectedly breaks up with him.
He flees to Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother, Dukakis' Phyllis. Dukakis plays the senile grandmother who is is waiting around to die and wants everyone within earshot to know.