My Old Ass, a film by Megan Park, with Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza

26 July 2024

Canadian actor and director Megan Park’s latest feature, My Old Ass, trailer, would be a sure bet to win movie title of the year, should such an award exist.

Otherwise, My Old Ass is on my want-to-see movie list because of the time-travel-like, older-self goes back in time to see their younger-self, and dispense some surely sage advice, plot. But there are no time machines, or flying DeLoreans, to be found here. Movement through time is occasioned by entirely different means:

A mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott [Maisy Stella] face-to-face with her 39-year-old self [Aubrey Plaza]. But when Elliott’s “old ass” delivers warnings to her younger self, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about her family, life, and love.

My Old Ass looks to be at least Plaza’s second role in a time-travel-like story, after 2012’s Safety Not Guaranteed, directed by Colin Trevorrow. The soundtrack also aptly includes Perth based Australian act Tame Impala’s 2012 hit, Feels Like We Only Go Backwards.

My Old Ass opens in Australian cinemas on Thursday 26 September 2024. If you’re able to move through time though, you may be able to see it sooner…