Once Geoffrey Rush hit his mid-60s, he was offered more and more roles where his age was the focal point. Yet when he read the script for “The Rule of Jenny Pen,” the nursing home-set horror ...

Set in a New Zealand nursing home, the entertaining and creepy The Rule of Jenny Pen stars John Lithgow as an eccentric old man who uses a baby doll puppet to torment the home’s other residents.

Once Geoffrey Rush hit his mid-60s, he was offered more and more roles where his age was the focal point. Yet when he read the script for “The Rule of Jenny Pen,” the nursing home-set horror ...