Movies/Scenes Representing Aging
- The Straight Story (1999)
- it's a film about aging, what's important, how we change, the power and need for reconciliation, wisdom, the heroic within. it's all shot as thru the eyes of an older person as well so the pace is slow and contemplative. (submitted by Sandi)
- American Beauty (1999)
- "The movie is about a man who fears growing older, losing the hope of true love and not being respected by those who know him best." (Roger Ebert Review, Chicago Sun Times)
- Shadrach (1998)
- An elderly former slave, Shadrach, walks over 600 miles to the place of his birth in Virginia, a former plantation. There he collapses in the front yard of a poor white bootlegger and his family. This family takes him in and nurses him as he begins to die. They respect the old man for his age and his determination to return home to die. (submitted by Martha Jo Chalmers, Berkeley, CA)
- Hope Floats (1998)
- Honoring parents: the scene where Sandra Bullock and her family come to see her father in the Alzheimers unit, continue through the dance. We followed this clip with "Kind and Generous" by Natalie Merchant. (Vivian Johnson, Windsor Crossing Community church, Chesterfield, MO)
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
