An elderly grieving widow is encouraged by her grandson to turn her love of oldies rock-n-roll music into a career as a radio dj, which she uses as a platform to take on a drug crisis in her small southern town.

SYNOPSIS:

After losing her husband Charlie, elderly Mae Wit mopes around the house all day while her daughter, Betty, a school teacher, and son-in-law, Tom, an accountant, are at work, and her grandson, Tony, is in school. Now that school’s out, the family hopes she snaps out of her depression. The grandson takes an interest in her record collection. They play oldies rock tunes on the stereo as she recalls the good times that she and her husband shared on the dance floor. While there are glimmers of hope this music therapy is working, she doesn’t get serious about her recovery until she finds a brochure for the retirement home that her daughter had brought home. So when her best friend, Lucille, who lives in the retirement home, asks her to DJ a dance there, she agrees to it to prove to her daughter that she’s not ready for assisted living just yet. With the help of her grandson, Granny entertains the retirement home residents by spinning oldies rock tunes and telling jokes in-between records. She is so entertaining that the owner of the town’s radio station asks her to fill in for their DJ who is on maternity leave.

Soon Mae Whit is spinning records and telling jokes at the local radio station, where she develops quite an audience while antagonizing her coworkers who don’t know how to take her amateurish and backwards ways. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing in her grandson’s world when the neighbor’s kid starts taking pills he said he got from the video arcade that opened up downtown. When granny learns this, she trots down to the police station. They send a patrol to check it out and find nothing. So she gathers up the residents of the retirement home and sends them to do some surveillance, hoping to find some evidence that saves the community from a drug crisis.