Grace Quigley (1984)

About 100 years ago (or some time after 1984) I went to the National Film Theatre to see a move called "The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley".  I enjoyed it hugely, but it then disappeared off the radar having done no box office whatsoever.  Some years later it emerged on video under the above title in a truncated form and with a different ending, which seems to be the only way it is now available.  It's a black comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Nick Nolte.  When she sees the latter dispatching her despicable landlord (Nolte's a professional hitman), she thinks up the wheeze of getting all of her elderly friends who are waiting for death to pay him to speed up their departures.  A mother/son relationship is formed as more and more of the disenchanted aged seek their help.  I know this probably sounds a bit on the sick side, but it is done with great charm, and Hepburn -- even at her most affected -- is an actress I can watch 'til the cows come home.