YOUNG @ HEART
Year: 2007
USA: Fox Searchlight
UK: Yume Pictures
Cast: Bob Cilman, Stan Goldman, Jeanne Hatch, Patricia Linderme, Steve Martin
Director: Stephen Walker
Country: UK
USA: 107 mins
UK: 108 mins
UK Certificate: PG contains mild language, sex references and themes of illness and death
USA Rated: PG for some mild language and thematic elements
USA Release Date: 9 April 2008 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 24 October 2008 (Limited Release - Scotland)
UK Release Date: 17 October 2008 (Limited Release)
Synopsis
A hit at the Sundance Film Festival, YOUNG @ HEART is the award-winning documentary from Stephen Walker that highlights the outstanding success of a New England senior citizens chorus.
Entertaining audiences worldwide with their covers of songs by everyone from The Clash to Coldplay, they are led by a strict musical director who drives them forwards to greater heights. What ultimately emerges is a funny and unexpectedly moving testament to friendship, creative inspiration, and reaching beyond expectations.