In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self.
But when Elliott’s “old ass” starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn’t do, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what’s becoming a transformative summer.
Director
Megan Park
Cast
Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza, Percy Hynes White
Rating
Year
2024
Country
United States
Language
English
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Reviews
- "Stella is a sensational find... a smart and instinctive young actor with a roughness around the edges that separates her from the slick unnaturalness of the many grown-up Disney kids that act as her industry peers."
- Guardian - "What Park creates from the tension between this joyful, exciting present and a seemingly ominous future is rather marvelous, a big and sincere sentiment about the risk and reward of life, a message that is just as worthy for a middle-ager as it is for a kid."
- Vanity Fair - "Ultimately, not only has Park crafted an often hilarious and entertaining coming-of-age movie, but a surprise tearjerker."
- The Playlist - "There’s a surprisingly grand emotional punch, arriving suddenly and landing with force."
- The Guardian - "These concepts aren’t necessarily earth-shattering, but they are profound. They’re universal, because they’re true, and Park imparts these lessons with sincerity and charm."
- Tribune News Service - "MY OLD ASS is a bit crazy. It’s also winning, in the gentlest, sweetest way. Park’s second feature is a pleasingly casual little movie that asks big questions in loopy, unfinished sentences."
- TIME Magazine - "Another home run for Megan Park, and a star-making turn for Maisy Stella. Spot-on comedic timing & delivery, maximum chemistry with her co-stars, and a seemingly effortless ability to make you feel the weight, complexity, thrill, and beauty of growing up."
- Perri Nemiroff - "[Megan] Park’s sophomore feature is sweet, locally specific, funny, and gradually heartbreaking in the most inventive fashion (bring tissues), one that maturely celebrates girlhood and young romance shame-free, with disarming sincerity."
- Harper's Bazaar
Festivals
- Frameline San Francisco Int'l LGBTQ Film Festival
- Provincetown Int'l Film Festival)
- Sundance Film Festival
- Montclair Film Sumer Showcase
- Sydney Film Festival