Old Days
November 30, 2009 – 9:56 pm
Old Days
(Matthew Shapiro, U S A, 24min)
Lillian (Mary Beth Peil) reluctantly enters a retirement community after her husband’s death, and she struggles to find her place within the eccentric residents’ social hierarchy, presided over by the queen bee of the retirement home, Sylvia (Helen Hanft). Feeling out of place and detached from the community, Lillian tries to forge an alliance with fellow outsider Louis (Brad Oscar), a middle-aged divorce who has been singing at the retirement home for as long as anyone can remember, but Louis would rather keep his distance from the often condescending residents. Despite the loneliness that Lillian faces in building a new life for herself at 74, she finds the potential to live more fully now than ever before.
