Old (film)
Appearance
Old is a 2021 horror thriller film about follows a group of people who find themselves aging rapidly on a secluded beach.
- Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, based on the French-language Swiss graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters.
It's only a matter of time. (taglines)
Prisca Cappa
[edit]- [to Trent aged 6] Stop wishing away this moment.
- There's something wrong with this beach!
Trent Cappa
[edit]- How would you feel if a fifty-year-old man called and said he was your six-year-old nephew?
Other
[edit]- Mid-Sized Sedan: [signs of aging are more noticeable on certain skin colors] First time they wish they were Black.
- Kara Aged 15: [now pregnant] We were just playing. It's ok. I just got a little fat.
Dialogue
[edit]- Jarin: The dog has died!
- Charles: He was only just alive!
- Kara Aged 15: I'm scared.
- Trent Aged 15: It's best to focus on specifics in the present in unsettling situations.
- Kara Aged 15: Mm-hmm.
- Trent Aged 15: Like breathing.
- Kara Aged 15: What's happening to us? Are we sick, too?
- Trent Aged 15: No, I don't think so. I think we're just growing.
- Trent Aged 15: Babies crying helps them breathe. We looked that up, didn't we, Mom?
- Patricia: We wrapped him around the towel to clean him up, then he looked around and closed his eyes. We had him around the towel for one minute.
- Chrystal: He died from lack of attention!
- Mid-Sized Sedan: Things are moving too fast here for the baby to survive.
- [Kara and Trent sit in the sand as she clutches the remains of their newborn son and stares off into the distance]
- Kara Aged 15: We're not getting off this beach. We never had a prom. Or a graduation. There's so many memories we didn't have. It's not fair...
- Trent Aged 15: [leaning against her] He needs to rest now.
- [She looks at him, then away again, vacantly loosening her grip on the bundle and allowing him to take it]
- Guy: Were we fighting about something?
- Prisca: We were.
- Guy: Well... whatever it was, I'm not mad anymore. I can't remember - why did we want to leave this beach? So beautiful... It doesn't matter. It's funny, I forget the word... it's about my feelings for you.
- Prisca: I know.
Taglines
[edit]- It's only a matter of time.
Cast
[edit]- Gael García Bernal — Guy Cappa
- Vicky Krieps — Prisca Cappa
- Rufus Sewell — Charles
- Alex Wolff — Trent Cappa
- Emun Elliott (adult)
- Luca Faustino Rodriguez (age 11)
- Nolan River (age 6)
- Thomasin McKenzie — Maddox Cappa
- Embeth Davidtz (adult)
- Alexa Swinton (age 11)
- Abbey Lee — Chrystal
- Nikki Amuka-Bird — Patricia Carmichael
- Ken Leung — Jarin Carmichael
- Eliza Scanlen — Kara
- Mikaya Fisher (age 11)
- Kylie Begley (age 6)
- Aaron Pierre — Mid-Sized Sedan/Brendan
External links
[edit]- Old quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Old at Rotten Tomatoes