Review: My Old Ass (2024)
At times heartfelt, yet worldly enough to never feel pretentious or preachy, My Old Ass is thoroughly modern and deeply affecting. Freshly out of high school and college bound, 18-year-old Elliott (Maisy Stella of the series Nashville ) takes mushrooms with her friends in the woods one night and has a hallucination that she meets her 39-year-old self (international treasure Aubrey Plaza). The premise is silly and fun, but writer/director Megan Park soon steers us into troubled waters immediately following this strange one night stand. In the able hands of Park, we care that Elliott is leaving her home on a cozy cranberry farm for the big city. We care that she hasn't taken the time to appreciate her mother and father or her brothers. When her future self warns young Elliott not to hang out with a boy named Chad (Percy Hynes White, of Wednesday fame), we care that she finds herself drawn to him anyway. What starts as a light-hearted mushroom trip becomes a poignant tale about gro...