History Film / Old

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/PinkFloyd ♪The sun is the same in a relative way when you're older♪]]]]''

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{TagLine}} It's only a matter of time.]]]]''

A family on holiday at a tropical resort is invited by the manager of the hotel they're staying in to a secluded beach alongside a group of other people. While they plan to relax at the beach for a few hours, their plans are thrown to the wayside as they slowly realize that the beach is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Unlike in the original comic, Trent and Maddox age to their 50s and the effects are irreversible, but they survive their time on the beach and manage to expose the resort to the authorities.]]

* NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat: M Night Shyamalan watches the coral for just a minute and a half before assuming Trent And Maddox have drowned and leaving. [[spoiler: Of course they haven't]]

** The trailer and TV spots make it look like the family is being driven to the beach in the scene where Trent asks if they’re there yet. The trailer also makes it look like this scene happens a little bit later in the movie, but that scene is actually the opening scene of the movie, and they’re being driven to the hotel.
** When the trailer shows the comparison between Trent played by Alex Wolff and Trent played by Nolan River, the shot of Trent played by Nolan River is from a scene where they’re at the beach that they went to before the one that makes them age rapidly, but the trailer makes it look like he’s on the beach that causes rapid aging.

''Old'' is a 2021 American Body Horror thriller film written, directed, and produced by Creator/MNightShyamalan. It is based on the French-language Swiss graphic novel ''ComicBook/{{Sandcastle}}'' by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters, which Shyamalan decided to adapt after receiving it as a Father's Day gift from his three daughters in 2017.

''Old'' is a 2021 American thriller film written, directed, and produced by Creator/MNightShyamalan. It is based on the French-language Swiss graphic novel ''ComicBook/{{Sandcastle}}'' by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters, which Shyamalan decided to adapt after receiving it as a Father's Day gift from his three daughters in 2017.

The film centers around a family on holiday at a tropical resort that is invited by the manager of the hotel they're staying in to a secluded beach alongside a group of other people. While they plan to relax at the beach for a few hours, their plans are thrown to the wayside as they slowly realize that the beach is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.

** Trent forms a bond with a kid named Idlib, while Maddox tries to comfort him as their parents fight in their hotel room. [[spoiler:He hits puberty in a matter of hours, impregnates the girl he comes to love by accident, and has a breakdown when their baby dies after a few minutes of crying. Then his parents die in front of him and his sister, and all they can do is try to find any clue that would get him and Maddox off the beach. While he says he's more worried about how his aunt will react, he reveals to the new guests that he lost his parents and Kara by manipulation]].

* TragicStillbirth: Charles has [[spoiler:untreated schizophrenia, and he fears that getting any treatment will out him and discredit his career as a cardiac surgeon and chief of medicine. Then his daughter rapidly gets pregnant and gives birth to a dead child, while Chrystal is screaming for him to help]].

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{TagLine}} They grow up so fast.]]]]''

* EvilBrit: The main antagonist on the beach is Charles who has a stereotypical English name amd speaks with a stereotypical generic English accent. Subverted somewhat, though, since the real villains are Americans, and it was their trial that exacerbated Charles' schizophrenia.

** {{Subverted|Trope}} with Charles, the only character to retain their original name. In the graphic novel, he's the father of Louis and Sophie, but in the film, he's the father of Kara, the movie's version of Zoe.

** Guy jokes with his kids that children are not allowed on the beach. Turns out to be true, after a fashion. They either don't remain children for long, or in one case, die.