Algoma International Film Association

Reviews:
MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: “[Y]ou cannot come away from this... and not vow to never, ever give up on life, or on anything you really want to do, no matter what great age you manage to achieve.”

Eric D. Snider, Film.com: “A more genuinely sweet and uplifting documentary I have not seen in quite a while.”

Robert W. Butler, Kansas City Star:“Its subjects are so compelling that Young @ Heart becomes a blisteringly funny and deeply moving meditation on music and mortality.”

Official web site :http://www.foxsearchlight.com/youngatheart/
IMDB :http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047007/

Young @ Heart

Year: 2007
Country: USA/UK
Director: Stephen Walker
Genre: documentary
Runtime: 107 minutes
Rating: PG
Language: English

Over the last 25 years, a group of senior citizens living in Northampton, Massachusetts, have refused to let age and ill health get them down. Young @ Heart is a documentary based on the lives of the current singing group of 24 senior citizens over a six-week rigorous rehearsal schedule, brought to the big screen by British filmmaker, Stephen Walker, who saw their performance in London. This group is not your ordinary singing chorus: they sing rock, punk, disco, and the average age is 81 with the oldest being 92 year old Eileen Hall. That said, the members of Young @ Heart are so compelling making the film blisteringly funny and a deeply moving meditation on music and mortality. Despite all the real-life challenges the group faces, what we all learn is how the show must go on.