Season (Merhawit Tsegay), a young and kind-hearted black woman, has been hired as the new caregiver for elderly Myrtle (Mary Buss), and is basically tasked with helping the old woman clear out the home she's been living at for all her life. At first, Season and Myrtle don't see eye to eye at all, as the years and experience that have come with them have made Myrtle cynical and ill-tempered. However, as the two women go through her stuff, Myrtle grows softer and starts telling about her great love, a pilot, Wesley (Jacob Dever), who ultimately left her (played by Olivia Buss in flashbacks) to serve in World War II and died in battle. Season is properly touched, but then Myrtle out of nowhere falls into a racist rant and makes Season give up her job on the spot - and it's only pity that makes her come back the next day, when she learns about Myrtle's other big love, to black farmhand Tipton (Josiah Overstreet), a love that just couldn't be back in the day ...

Now I won't say Thank You, Amelia Earhart is totally free of clichés, in story and dialogue as well as directorial and music choices, but at the same time there's also much heart in this film, and despite its sometimes clichéed approach, this film isn't giving any easy answers, instead paints a complex picture. And Merhawit Tsegay and Mary Buss sure play off of one another well and really carry the film, helping to make this one well worth a watch.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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