The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Jared Scheib's documentary gives you a charming look into life at old age. The film follows a character, Sam Berger, who is commonly known as "The Mayor" around his retirement home. He, and the characters around him, paint life in old age in a way that I had not considered before. The atmosphere at the retirement home almost feels like a college dormitory and the inhabitants certainly know how to live it up! In fact, my dad, upon finishing watching the film, turned to my mom and said, "So when are we moving in?" The characters are both extremely likable and relatable. They help us understand that old age is just another chapter in the book of life. I aspire to have the outlook on life that Sam Berger has.Well done, Jared, on a charming and heart-warming film. I enjoyed it very much.

I was lucky enough to see an early cut of this film as well as the final cut at the LA premiere. While I enjoyed the earlier cut, the final cut blew me away. Mr. Scheib masterfully weaves story lines together while humanizing the retirement home experience in a way that I never thought was necessary. The protagonist, Sam, is incredibly engaging and enjoyable to watch. Each of his friends at the retirement home bring their own unique character to the film and show us all what it really means to live. I laughed out loud numerous times in this touching documentary. Hats off to the director for making a story about the elderly entertaining, funny, informative, and charming, all while staying artistically relevant. I couldn't recommend this film any more!

This excellent, moving, even inspirational film by Jared Scheib rocked me in an unexpected quiet quarter. I had imagined a depiction of a brash, rollicking larger-than-life character, king of his old-age home, and instead got a portrait of a genial, philosophic man (Sam Berger) in his late 80's and an entrée into a human world inside the home, which seemed to house about 40 individuals, which revealed a sub-culture and continuing process of life I had never seen. Scheib's movie is the best depiction I've ever seen of the actual lives of very old people, lived apart from society. Provoking the oldsters with questions about sex, he achieves an amazing rapport with them and an output of personal information that showed me – well, life as we know it just "goes on" til it stops. I mean, some people are in wheelchairs, the ambulance and hearse show up at the front door all the time, and the residents and their cheerful "Mayor" just keep up living their confined lives to the fullest. What else can they (we) do?My grandparents certainly never discussed their sex lives, their petty quarrels, and the eternal human search for love - with me. Most active, younger people simply do not want to know what goes on in these quarters where folks who are simply too old to function in society live together. Why? It's scary for us, this "old age and death" thing. Also the old folks are not active players we can rely on or relate to. We mostly want to know: "Is Grandma (pa) OK?" and that's sufficient. Scheib knocks down the barriers of convention. He achieves an entrance into this arcane world through his now-deceased grandmother Dorothy, herself a stalwart, intellectually clear character who makes a great counter-point to the easy-going Sam, the "Mayor." We watch the course of a touching romance Sam has with another home-dweller. As perhaps "comic relief," Scheib also expertly interposes an elderly married couple who are constantly sniping at each other. We see this is their affectionate routine, maybe their survival. All the characters are fully rendered due to his easy, open relationship with them as subjects. This innovative film is supported by terrific cinematography and editing, also by Scheib, a recent USC film graduate. All the visual images were satisfying and clear. I left the theatre thinking not only had I learned a great deal I hadn't know about (ahem) life – but also that I'd seen a dynamic, revealing, very modern movie.

I could not wait to share this movie with my girlfriend. What an inspiring story of a man who makes the most of his life. This movie has depth that few movies have. Sam Berger is an 88 year old living at a retirement home in Dallas. He is very charismatic and pursues the women at the retirement home. He is not manipulative, but he does seem to have a way with the women there. I think he is the perfect example of how one can enjoy life when they get old. I hope to get a copy of the DVD and share it with my family and girlfriend as soon as possible. It seems that few elderly people are able to see that the true beauty of life is the relationships we form and the attitude we have. Jared Scheib even said that Sam's attitude is what made his such a magnetic character.