How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies is a 2024 Thai comedy-drama about a crafty young man who moves in to take care of his grandmother after she is diagnosed with cancer. Driven by the hope of inheriting her fortune, he soon discovers that earning her trust and affection is much harder than he expected. The movie is currently available to stream on Netflix.
Plot Summary
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies begins with a high school dropout M, who is a newbie gamer struggling to make money. One day, he finds out that his cousin looks after her sick relative, who leaves their property to her before passing away. Motivated by this idea, M decides to care for his grandma, who has cancer, hoping she’ll leave him her house. However, as they spend more time together, he unexpectedly grows close to her.
At first, M only cares about one thing: getting Grandma’s house after she dies. He even tries to turn against his mother so he can take care of her more often. When her eldest son, Kiang, offers to move her to his home, M gets nervous about losing the inheritance. By then, Grandma realizes that both Kiang and M are only interested in her money. Later, at the temple, Kiang and his family reveal their selfishness by praying only for their own wishes.
Grandma prays for everyone, while M prays for her to win the lottery. As her health worsens, he starts doing small things for her, like quietly cleaning up her fallen hair during chemo while she’s asleep. He begins to feel sorry for her loneliness and is touched when she says she’s glad he’s there. When her youngest son, Soei, steals 200k to pay off his debt, M is furious for her.
Still, he helps Soei by giving up the only valuable thing he owns, showing he isn’t after the money for himself. M grows more frustrated as he sees how little her family cares about her. When Grandma decides to leave the house to Soei, M is angry—not just because he didn’t get it, but because he feels like she doesn’t really love him.
Does Grandma get upset when she finds M plans to sell her house?
Before M starts connecting with Grandma, he lists her house online, planning to sell it once she gives it to him. However, he seems to change his mind and doesn’t respond to any inquiries. When one of the buyers shows up at the house, Grandma calmly tells them the house isn’t for sale.
She doesn’t tell M about the visitor and instead gives him a formal shirt she bought, hoping it might help him find a good job. M laughs it off, calling himself useless, which makes her sad because that’s what she used to call him. Later, she gives him a pomegranate from the tree she planted for him, showing that, despite everything, she still cares about him.
What does M inherit from his grandma?
After Grandma gives her house to Soei to help him pay off his debt, M feels angry and thinks she doesn’t love him enough. However, after talking to his mom and cousin, he realizes he truly cares about her and misses her. When she is placed in a nursing home, he asks her to come live with him and his mom. He stays by her side when she passes away and is surprised to discover she left him some money.
In a flashback, it’s revealed that she opened a bank account for him when he was a child, and he had promised to buy her a new house with that money. In the present, he withdraws the money to buy her a burial plot. At the end of the movie, as Grandma had wished, all her children and grandchildren gather to visit her grave.
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