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Old Movie Storyline. Married couple Guy and Prisca travel to a tropical resort with their young children Trent and Maddox as a final family vacation before they divorce. On the advice of the resort’s manager, the family visits a secluded beach also occupied by three additional vacationing parties: rapper Mid-Size Sedan and a female companion; surgeon Charles, his wife Crystal, their young daughter Kara, and Charles’ mother Agnes; and married couple Jarin and Patricia. Tragedy strikes the group’s vacation when the body of Mid-Size Sedan’s companion is discovered, which is followed by Agnes suddenly dying.
Strange events soon occur, including the three children becoming teenagers. The group realizes that the beach is rapidly aging them, resulting in their health deteriorating. They also notice that at least one member of each family has an underlying medical condition. Efforts to leave result in the members of the group blacking out and waking up on the beach. Kara and Trent are left alone to play while the adults spilt up in groups of two and try to find other ways to leave but everyone winds up blacking out and waking up on the beach again.
The attempts to leave grow more tense when Charles’ worsening schizophrenia leads to him killing Mid-Size Sedan. Then a worried Prisca calls for Trent and Kara, only to see them walking towards them holding hands and smiling as Kara is now pregnant. She soon goes into labor and has the baby, but when Patricia puts the baby down for a minute it dies from lack of attention. Jarin tries to swim off the beach. Maddox and Prisca get in a argument and Maddox goes for a swim only to find Jarin’s body. As she screams for help and everyone comes running Patricia has a seizure and dies. Kara soon gets upset and tries to climb the rocks in a attempt to escape, but as she gets to the top she blacks out and falls to her death.
As night falls, Trent notices a camera on top of the rocks. Charles eventually attacks Guy with a knife, and Prisca tells Trent and Maddox to run, then head towards the rocks to hide only to find Crystal, getting skinnier from her calcium deficiency. She tells the kids not to look at her and starts coming for them as they light matches to see; she starts breaking all her bones in her body trying to get to them and dies. Back on the beach, Prisca slashes Charles with a rusted knife, causing a fatal infection. As the night winds down, an elderly Guy and Prisca make amends before dying moments apart from each other.
Old is a 2021 American thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by M. Night Shyamalan, loosely based on the French language-Swiss graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. The film’s ensemble cast includes Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Alex Wolff, Thomasin McKenzie, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ken Leung, Eliza Scanlen, Aaron Pierre, Embeth Davidtz, and Emun Elliott. The film follows a group of people who find themselves aging rapidly on a secluded beach from which they cannot escape.
The film was announced in October 2019 after Shyamalan read the graphic novel by Levy and Peeters. The cast joined the following summer, with filming taking place from September to November in the Dominican Republic. It marked the first film of Shyamalan’s career to have no shooting take place around his hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Following a delay attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, Old was theatrically released on July 23, 2021, in the United States, by Universal Pictures. The film has received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the film’s premise and cinematography but criticized its screenplay and uneven execution.
Old Movie Poster (2021)
Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Alex Wolff, Thomasin McKenzie, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ken Leung, Eliza Scanlen, Aaron Pierre, Embeth Davidtz, Emun Elliott
Screenplay by: M. Night Shyamalan
Production Design by: Naaman Marshall
Cinematography by: Mike Gioulakis
Film Editing by: Brett M. Reed
Costume Design by: Caroline Duncan
Set Decoration by: Karen Frick
Art Direction by: Wilhem Perez
Music by: Trevor Gureckis
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for strong violence, disturbing images, suggestive content, partial nudity and brief strong language.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: July 23, 2021
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