Movie inspired by real life granny scammers

Josh Margolin has spent his whole life in awe of his grandmother, 104-year-old Thelma. He spent years chronicling her everyday life in video, from accessing her emails to going on a shopping trip.

The writer and director says Thelma has always been fiercely independent.

"She's had so many illnesses over the course of life that she's beaten," Josh told ABC Entertainment.

"It's a testament to her resilience. I've watched her get hit and bounce back, all the way from her 70s, into her 80s and 90s and now her hundreds."

But despite being as tough as nails, a few years back Thelma became a target for scammers, who demanded thousands from the centenarian.

Now, Josh has taken his grandmother's experience and turned it into a feature film. Thelma, in cinemas now, is not only a heartwarming family action comedy but also a realistic reminder of how easy it is to fall into a scammer's trap.

Inspired, Josh wrote the script for Thelma — an action comedy caper that casts his grandmother as the scooter-revving, scammer-confronting hero.