Gerontophilia Page #4

Synopsis: Lake is an unusual boy: he is a young man with an old soul who discovers he has an odd fixation on the elderly. Realizing that some day, if fate allows, he will be one himself, he is particularly fascinated by old men. He imagines their age to be a beautiful thing and recognizes how these men were once young and vibrant and attractive, as he is now. Although Lake has a girlfriend his own age, named Desiree, he wonders sometimes if his fixation on old men is unnatural and unhealthy - perhaps even sexual. When his mother, who is a nurse, takes on a management job at an old folks home, Lake jumps at her offer of a summer job as an orderly there. Gradually, Lake comes to discover that the old people in the institution are being given psychotropic drugs to keep them in a catatonic state. Lake befriends one old man in particular, Mr. Peabody, who still seems to have some fight left in him. They begin to form a strong bond. Mr. Peabody charms Lake with romantic stories of his youth and confes
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Bruce La Bruce
Production: Strand Releasing
  2 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
UNRATED
Year:
2013
82 min
£4,780
Website
83 Views


Give me my goddamn keys!

-You mean these?

Mom!

I'm sorry!

I'm sorry!

Forget about those,they're

the worst car accessory.

You're taking away my dice.

I love those dice.

-We're not going to have anything from Mr. Nelson

in the car.

Thanks Desiree.

I owe you big time.

-Is Marie okay?

-She'll live.

Okay Melvin.

-Lake, this is crazy.

-Can you help me?

His arm, his arm's on me, okay.

-The other arm, Melvin.

Come on, the other arm.

Okay.

I'm going to go and check

if we can get through.

All clear.

This doesn't really feel like breaking out.

It's too easy.

Sh*t...

Who was that?

-That's a saint.

Okay

Oh... God! Okay.

You got him?

Where are you taking him?

-He said he wants to see

the Pacic ocean again

and something about a pie

in the sky.

-In this beater

you're taking him.

-I just have to get him out

of here. It's like horror

hospital in there, so...

It doesn't matter where we are.

-Are you sure that's where

you're going?

-Why else would I be doing it?

-Okay, I've been thinking about

this a lot since the last time

I saw you. What I wanted

to tell you is um...

I think that what you are doing

and what you are is really

brave.

And the fact that you're acting on it,

you know, like it's

revolutionary. All these ideas that people have about like

aging and beauty and what makes

somebody desirable, you're

going against that.

You're ghting against nature.

And do you see how

radical that is?

And what I also wanted

to tell you is that...

If you were a girl,

You'd be on my list.

-Desiree...

-But the f***ed up part is

that what you are means

that we can't be together anymore.

You know that right?

I don't know what I am.

My God, I wish we were

the ones escaping.

I'll text you.

Okay, go.

Go.

I love you.

Hey!

Did you have any more

roommates after that?

-Here and there.

I was even married once.

If you can believe that.

-Married? To a woman?

-At the time it was the only

option. It was the 70's.

Even in the theater world,

if you weren't married after

the age of 40, there was

something wrong with you.

Were you in love with her?

-It was a kind of love.

Miraculously, we even conceived

one drunken winter's night.

Two years after our son was born,

she divorced me

and took him away to another city.

From that point on,

I was a conrmed bachelor.

Good afternoon, young lady,

I wonder if you could direct

me to the notions department.

-Notions, what's that?

-My apologies, sowing kits, needles, threads, that sort

of thing. I'm afraid I've

Iost a button on my jacket.

-Yeah, it's down isle 4,

at the end on the bottom.

-Ah, thank you. This is my grandson.

We're travelling

across the country together.

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