A ★★★½ review of Eleanor the Great (2025)

When her best friend Bessie, a holocaust survivor, passes away, 94 year old Eleanor Morgenstein moves from Florida to New York to be with her daughter and her grandson. Her daughter, who has to work, drops her off at the local Jewish Community Center and she finds herself in a Holocaust Survivor’s Support Group. She realizes she shouldn’t be there but she cannot help telling the stories that her deceased friend has told her over the years. She captures the attention of a young journalism student whose father is a local newspaper reporter and the deception spirals out of control.