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***Old*** is a 2021 American thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan. It is based on the French-language Swiss graphic novel *Sandcastle* by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Alex Wolff, Thomasin McKenzie, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ken Leung, Eliza Scanlen, Aaron Pierre, Embeth Davidtz, and Emun Elliott. The plot follows a group of people who find themselves aging rapidly on a secluded beach.

## Plot

A thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly reducing their entire lives into a single day.

## Cast

* Gael García Bernal as Guy Cappa, an actuary married to Prisca and the father of Trent and Maddox.
* Vicky Krieps as Prisca Cappa, a museum curator with a stomach tumor married to Guy and the mother of Trent and Maddox.
* Rufus Sewell as Charles, a schizophrenia-battling surgeon married to Chrystal, the father of Kara, and Agnes's son.
* Alex Wolff and Emun Elliott as Trent Cappa, Guy and Prisca's son and Maddox's younger brother. Wolff plays Trent at 15 and Elliot plays Trent as an adult, while Nolan River plays Trent at 6 and Luca Faustino plays Trent at 11.
* Thomasin McKenzie and Embeth Davidtz as Maddox Cappa, Guy and Prisca's daughter and Trent's older sister. McKenzie plays Maddox at 16 and Davidtz plays Maddox as an adult, while Alexa Swinton plays Maddox at 11.
* Abbey Lee as Chrystal, Charles's wife, Kara's mother, and Agnes's daughter-in-law who has hypocalcemia.
* Nikki Amuka-Bird as Patricia Carmichael, an epileptic psychologist married to Jarin.
* Ken Leung as Jarin Carmichael, a nurse and Patricia's husband.
* Eliza Scanlen as Kara, Charles and Chrystal's daughter and Agnes's granddaughter. Scanlen portrays Kara at 15, while Kylie Begley portrays Kara at 6 and Mikaya Fisher portrays Kara at 11.
* Aaron Pierre as Mid-Sized Sedan / Brendan, a rapper afflicted with hemophilia.

Additional cast members include Kathleen Chalfant as Agnes, Gustaf Hammarsten as the Resort Manager, Francesca Eastwood and Matthew Shear as resort employees Madrid and Sidney, Kailen Jude as the manager's nephew Idlib, and M. Night Shyamalan as the Hotel Van Driver who drives the guests to the beach and monitors them. Also, Alejandra Useche portrays the Unnamed Woman, who accompanies Mid-Sized Sedan to the beach when he first arrives.

## Themes

At the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, Shyamalan said that the film's focus on aging reminded him of his father, who has dementia, and his children as he watches them grow up. During the event, Alex Wolff compared the film to the COVID-19 pandemic, "Coming out of COVID it feels like time just stopped. And that's what the movie's literally about." At the film's premiere, Wolff was asked for his interpretation of the film and said it was "an allegorical existential sort of meditation on getting older." Other cast members chimed in; Nikki Amuka-Bird said the film was about not taking nature for granted, Gael García Bernal said it was about questioning how time travels differently for other people, and Vicky Krieps found that it was about "love and family and all these things that are much stronger than any fears — the fear of aging and the fear of death."

## Production

On September 26, 2020, principal photographybegan in the Dominican Republic and to celebrate, Shyamalan revealed the film's title and published its first promotional release poster. That same day, *Collider* reported that the film was an adaptation of *Sandcastle*, the French graphic novel by Swiss authors Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters, which Shyamalan had received as a collective Father's Day gift from his three daughters in 2017. *Old* marks the first film of Shyamalan's career to have no shooting take place around his hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With an $18 million budget, filming took place during the COVID-19 pandemic with cinematographer Michael Gioulakis, using 35mm film, and concluded on November 15, 2020.

## Release

In June 2020, Universal Pictures announced that *Old* would be theatrically released on July 23, 2021. A premiere for the film was held at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City on July 19, 2021, which was attended by its cast and crew.

## Reception

As of August 15, 2021, *Old* has grossed $42.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $31.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $74.6 million. Worldwide, *Old* debuted in 23 markets, making $6.5 million in its first weekend; the top countries were Russia ($2.1 million), the United Kingdom ($1.1 million), Mexico ($800,000), Italy ($600,000), and France ($500,000). In its second weekend, the film made $7.5 million, including a $1.2 million opening in Spain, and grossed $4.4 million in its third.On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which categorizes reviews only as positive or negative, 51% of 298 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "*Old* has no shortage of interesting ideas -- and writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's uneven execution will intrigue or annoy viewers, with little middle ground between."