She wowed audiences as Thelma in 2024; now 94-year-old June Squibb is taking the lead for the second time as Eleanor the Great in Scarlett Johannson’s directorial debut.

Squibb plays Eleanor, a woman moving to New York City (against her will) from Florida, who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a college student and her father, both grieving after an enormous loss. And apparently that means trouble, according to the movie’s synopsis.

In Eleanor The Great, June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own.

The trailer shows off Squibb’s trademark sauciness. She jokes about sleeping with a neighbor’s husband, shares her condolences with her cab driver when she learns he lives in Staten Island, and tells her daughter that she’d rather take a trip to the morgue than go to a class at the Jewish Community Center.

But Eleanor is also in mourning – she loses her friend and roommate Bessie, a Holocaust survivor, with whom Eleanor lived for 11 years, spending their days people-watching on the beach in Florida.

Tory Kamen wrote Eleanor the Great, which also stars Erin Kellyman and Chiwetel Ejiofor as the grieving father and daughter and Jessica Hecht as June’s daughter. The movie is also set to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It was an official selection in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in May.

Eleanor the Great will be available for everyone to see when it moves into theaters on September 26th.