My Old Ass 2024

 My Old Ass


“He's like this weird mix of being so lovable that I just want to protect him, and being so basic, and I want to punch him and his weirdly symmetrical face.”

“No more boat rides with Chad, promise?“

“It was really nice to meet you…Chad.”

-My Old Ass

Time, time is short. Memory, memory is what keeps us going. As we travel through the twists and turns of life we often misjudge the importance of our future and discredit the impact of our past. In the end, we fail to see either in the proper light. Our future and past become tinged with regret. Regret for what we could have done better and for what we should be doing now. It is an endless cycle unless....We learn from our past, and begin to appreciate our new future.
My Old Ass is an irreverent, unique and insightfully humorous tolling of the bells. The film frequently entreats us to be aware of the time we have, and it wonderfully illustrates how that awareness reverberates in every moment of our lives. This is a comedy built on the power of relationships and the meaning that emanates from those connections. My Old Ass strives to delight, but it also takes us on a journey through the human heart, and the walls we put up to protect ourselves from pain.
Love is a difficult thing, it hurts, but it also heals and reminds us who we long to be. Love gives us life and calls us to that struggle, because there is deep meaning in the lives that we are given. For sure, it may be a life filled with sorrow though, isn't it so often true that the greatest of sorrows arise from the greatest of loves? Director Megan Park and her team grant us something special here. My Old Ass reminds us that love motivates life, and life comes from love. Wherever that life may lead.

Rated R for language throughout, drug use, sexual material, and brief non-graphic nudity (swimming scene)

I found My Old Ass to be very entertaining, delightfully charming and deeply meaningful. I hope in some way you do too.



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