Chemo Club

Heist/Comedy

Tagline

No Money. No Morals. No Teeth.

Logline

What if two photo book stars of the 60’s, now forgotten pensioners, infuriated by the lack of payment of their old age pension and investments, decide to join forces in a daring heist against the fraudulent CEO of the pension investment company.

Synopsis

Lulu Roberts is a granite voiced granny from hell. No friends. No money. No brakes. She drinks too much. Swears too much. Wants too much. She also has cancer and six months to live. And she has a dream. She’s bet her ludicrously young doctor that she’ll outsmart the Big C and get to Broadway before she dies. One small problem: All of her investments have disappeared into the “Trusted (We can be) Pensions and Investments”. And they’re not giving them up.

Faith Kekana is a gentle church going gogo who hates foul language, is terrified of authority, and is trying to keep her head down and her family provided for. One small problem. Trusted isn’t paying her pension, so she can’t pay her electricity, help her single mom recently retrenched daughter Lineo, or send her dearly loved granddaughter Palesa to leadership camp.

There’s an unexpected link between these two baby boomers: they were both sex goddesses of the Photo-Comic Books of 70’s South Africa. Faith was “She”. Lulu was “Tessa”. They never met of course. It was a different time. And no one – except Lulu – remembers the glory days of the Poesboeke.

Lulu arm-twists the reluctant Faith into agreeing to the Robin Hood heist of the 0’s. Their target? Naturally, the flamboyantly wealthy, charismatically ruthless entrepreneur Grant, who has piled all of the stolen funds into four Netsukes (Japanese action figures).

It’s “Thelma and Louise” meets “Cocoon” out of “Ocean’s 11”. And it’s not going to be easy.

It’s a case of little old ladies rule as the tension rises until the exciting climactic robbery where everything goes very wrong – and very right for these four oddball “criminals” caught in the web they wove themselves: where Gerard redeems himself, where Faith regains her high kicks, and Lulu loses her wig, and throws away her necklace, where Sivu learns a little more than he ever bargained for about women, and where South Africa’s pensioners get payback in a way they never anticipated…