HOW TO LIVE FOREVER

Year: 2009
USA: Variance Films
Cast: Gertrude Baines, Dolores Bates, Ray Bradbury, Aubrey de Grey, Brian M Delaney, Phyllis Diller, Mordecai Finley, Sebastien Gendry, Jonathan Gold, Rathyna Gomer, Brian Harris, Pico Iyer, Marge Jetton, Tanya Jones, Madan Kataria, Ronald Klatz, Tricia Kurunathan, Ray Kurzweil, Jack & Elaine LaLanne, Thomas Lynch, Buster Martin, Shinei Miyagi, Kelly Morton, Al Mott, Samm Mullins, Scott Mullins, Zenei Nakamura, Sherwin Nuland, Ushi & Kikue Okushima, Don & Edna Parker, John Robbins, Randall Roberts, Linda Salvin, Lisa Schoonerman, Diana Schwarzbein, Willard Scott, Takanori Shibata, Suzanne Somers, Shigeo Tokuda, Ellsworth Wareham, Eleanor Wasson, Craig Willcox, Jessica L Williams, Marianne Williamson, Tyrus Wong, Heather Yegge, Akimitsu Yokoyama, Robert Young
Director: Mark Wexler
Country: USA
USA: 94 mins
USA Rated: Not yet rated
USA Release Date: 20 May 2011 (Limited Release - Los Angeles)
USA Release Date: 13 May 2011 (Limited Release - New York)


Synopsis

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 101-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 thought provoking examination of what truly gives life meaning.