After a successful directorial debut on ‘The Fallout‘, which won the Narrative Feature Grand Jury Award at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, director Megan Park returns with her sophmore film, ‘My Old Ass‘. Amazon MGM Studios debuted the trailer of the film in which Maisy Stella stars as a teenager meeting her 39-year-old self portrayed by Aubrey Plaza.
Alongside Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza, the film also stars Percy Hynes White, Maddie Ziegler, and Kerrice Brooks.
Release Date
Directed by Megan Park, ‘My Old Ass’ initially premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film opens exclusively in theaters September 13, 2024.
Synopsis
In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott (Maisy Stella) face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). 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.
In an interview with Filmmaker Magazine, director Megan Park says, “I’m not a huge genre person and I didn’t want to make it sci-fi, and I kept it simple… Ultimately to me, it was about whether the buy-in was there emotionally. And if it’s there, then you can kind of get away with anything. And that’s what I wanted to get right first. So that was part of the thought process.”
Reviews
David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter praised the film in a review, writing “Not since Toy Story 3 wielded its power to reduce grown-ass adults to puddles of tears has a movie been so in touch with the tender feelings associated with leaving home and saying a definitive goodbye to childhood, wistfully contemplating what we take with us and what we leave behind.”
Peter Debruge, in a Variety review also praised the film, writing “The landscapes alone are enough to make you cry. Odds are good you’ll tear up eventually. It’s that kind of movie, with a twist that redefines which genre audiences had been watching all along.”
Official Trailer
Watch the official trailer for ‘My Old Ass’.