Some Kind of Heaven
Behind the gates of a palm-tree-lined fantasyland, three residents and one interloper at America’s largest retirement community strive to find happiness.
- Released: 2021-02-19
- Runtime: 83 minutes
- Genre: Documentaries
- Stars: Dennis Dean, Lynn Henry, Anne Kincer, Reggie Kincer, Gary Schwartz, Barbara Stanton
- Director: Lance Oppenheim
Comments
- R85ALIVE - 2 February 2022
Surprising and touching.
I'll be honest. At first I was not terribly excited about watching a "Disney Land for Pensioners". I had seen a favourable YouTube review of it from someone I respect, and to boot, it was 99c on the Apple store.
I am so glad I watched this. Honestly, it felt like the meshing of a documentary and a feature film, all the characters had very meaningful, interesting and moving issues going on for them even at this stage in their life and even in such an idyllic place to be as well. I think that's what took me by surprise, the fact these people were not just on a long R&R in their twilight years, that made the whole experience refreshing and moving, especially the lady with the husband and his drug charges, I really really felt for her as she was at her wits end with...lets be honest, a bit of a hippy child for a husband at times.
This really made me think about growing old, how it isn't all golf, dancing and margaritas by the pool. Life can still hit hard for you when the Winter years come a calling.
