How to Live Forever (2011)
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57% of critics liked it
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54% of users liked it
(278 ratings)
Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack LaLanne have all the answers, or does Buster, a 103-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking… More Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack LaLanne have all the answers, or does Buster, a 103-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner? What about futurist Ray Kurzweil, a laughter yoga expert, or an elder porn star? Wexler explores the viewpoints of delightfully unusual characters alongside those of health, fitness and life extension experts in this engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Begun as a study in life-extension, How To Live Forever evolves into a thoughtprovoking examination of what truly gives life meaning. --(c) Variance
- Directed By
- Mark Wexler
- Genres
- Documentary, Special Interest
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 13, 2011 Limited
- Studio
- Variance Films
Critic Reviews
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
A cheerfully rambling documentary that's much more thought-provoking than the sum of its parts.
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Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
A hodgepodge of talking-head vignettes including authorities on aging and daft, wrinkly nursing-home residents whose dotage doesn't seem enviable.
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Adam Bernstein, Washington Post
A moderately ingratiating, none too probing and largely predictable essay on the way people fear and embrace their senior years.
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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Wexler gets tired of his own movie near the end of it. The viewer will get tired in 15 minutes.
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Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Wexler, whose father is the brilliant cinematographer Haskell Wexler - still filming movies at 89 - wisely focuses on the personalities as well as the anomalies.
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Cast
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Ray Bradbury
as Participant
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Phyllis Diller
as Participant
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Jack La Lanne
as Participant
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Willard Scott
as Participant
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Suzanne Somers
as Participant
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Edna
as Participant
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Marianne Williamson
as Participant
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John Robbins
as Participant
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Tyrus Wong
as Participant
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Takanori Shibata
as Participant
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Ray Kurzweil
as Participant
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Aubrey de Grey
as Participant
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Shigeo Tokuda
as Participant
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Gertrude Baines
as Participant
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Dolores Bates
as Participant
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Brian M. Delaney
as Participant
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Mordecai Finley
as Participant
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Sebastien Gendry
as Participant
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Jonathan Gold
as Participant
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Rathyna Gomer
as Participant
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Brian Harris
as Participant
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Pico Iyer
as Participant
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Marge Jetton
as Participant
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Tanya Jones
as Participant
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Madan Kataria
as Participant
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Ronald Klatz
as Participant
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Tricia Kurunathan
as Participant
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Elaine LaLanne
as Participant
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Thomas Lynch
as Participant
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Buster Martin
as Participant
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Shinei Miyagi
as Participant
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Kelly Morton
as Participant
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Al Mott
as Participant
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Samm Mullins
as Participant
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Scott Mullins
as Participant
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Zenei Nakamura
as Participant
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Sherwin Nuland
as Participant
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Ushi Okushima
as Participant
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Kikue Okushima
as Participant
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Don Parker
as Participant
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Randall Roberts
as Participant
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Linda Salvin
as Participant
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Lisa Schoonerman
as Participant
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Diana Schwarzbein
as Participant
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Ellsworth Wareham
as Participant
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Eleanor Wasson
as Participant
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Craig Willcox
as Participant
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Heather Yegge
as Participant
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Akimitsu Yokoyama
as Participant
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Robert Young
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