Grace Hanson

Grace Hanson is a retired cosmetics executive: polished, controlled, and quietly imperious, the kind of woman who has run her own life and marriage like a well-managed company. When her husband upends everything, she is forced into unwelcome closeness with a woman she has spent decades dismissing.

Fonda plays Grace's brittleness as armor built from real competence, so her slow thaw never feels like softening into a cliché — it feels like a formidable woman learning she can be formidable and vulnerable at once. The comedy comes from her precision; the depth comes from watching that precision crack.