Elderly wealthy industrialist Richard Kendrick (the always excellent Jeffrey DeMunn) and his wife Lily (a fine and credible performance by Melora Walters) move into an isolated luxury community where the rich and powerful live their twilight years with incredible vitality. Naturally, said community is harboring a dark secret.
Director Albert Chi relates the absorbing story at a gradual pace, takes time to develop the main characters, grounds the fantastic premise in a believable everyday reality, and nicely captures a quietly unsettling sense of something sinister happening just underneath a deceptively pleasant surface.
The smart script by Eileen Shields asks a profound and provocative central question: How far would you go to live a longer and healthier life? The low-key manner the story gets told in gives this picture an extra chilling plausibility. Moreover, the sound acting by the capable cast keeps this movie humming: Christopher Denham as outwardly amiable (not so) mad scientist Dr. Alan Campbell, Shiva Negar as the sweet Mia, Brandon Scott as friendly butler Arthur, Susan Sullivan as cheery administrator Patsy Howard, and Harley Jane Kozak as perky yoga instructor Holly. A neat little film.
Director Albert Chi relates the absorbing story at a gradual pace, takes time to develop the main characters, grounds the fantastic premise in a believable everyday reality, and nicely captures a quietly unsettling sense of something sinister happening just underneath a deceptively pleasant surface.
The smart script by Eileen Shields asks a profound and provocative central question: How far would you go to live a longer and healthier life? The low-key manner the story gets told in gives this picture an extra chilling plausibility. Moreover, the sound acting by the capable cast keeps this movie humming: Christopher Denham as outwardly amiable (not so) mad scientist Dr. Alan Campbell, Shiva Negar as the sweet Mia, Brandon Scott as friendly butler Arthur, Susan Sullivan as cheery administrator Patsy Howard, and Harley Jane Kozak as perky yoga instructor Holly. A neat little film.