My Grandpa the Bankrobber

My Grandpa the Bankrobber

2011 · 90 min · ★ 6.7 · Family, Adventure

In order to find her father in Surinam Grace is forced to take some desperate measures. Grace is the only black child of an all-white family, desperate to find out everything about her Surinam father. Grandpa can help her, but his memory gets worse every day since the death of his wife. When the family decide to put Grandpa into a retirement home, he and Grace decide to use his savings to travel to Surinam - but the family has blocked access to his bank account. But their dreams can come true if they rob the bank

Directed by Ineke Houtman · Written by Sjoerd Kuyper

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