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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) |
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| Tuesdays with Morrie
(1999)
| A quote by the main character Mori: "Death ends a
life, not a relationship." (Rev. PCR Comninos, Richards Bay
Presbyterian Church, Richards Bay, South Africa) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Driving Miss Daisy
(1989) |
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