Rock & roll will never die!

Winner of the Audience Award, Los Angeles Film Festival

Young@Heart, a chorus composed of senior citizens, has entertained audiences since 1982 with unique renditions of punk, rock, and rhythm-and-blues songs by musicians as disparate as the Clash, Coldplay, and James Brown. With a new show six weeks away, Young@Heart's taskmaster choral director has new songs for these inspiring elders to learn, from Sonic Youth's "Schizophrenia" to Allen Toussaint's tongue-twisting "Yes, We Can Can." Young@Heart is a serious musical undertaking, a supportive community, and a way for members to stay active and engaged with society. The group's eclectic and entertaining repertoire shines a spotlight on taboos about old age—the Clash's "Should I Stay, or Should I Go?" becomes an amusing meditation on life and death, while Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" serves as a haunting ode to lost youth and fallen friends. While the chorus prepares for the concert, some members struggle with serious health problems, impressing us with the special challenges the group faces. Funny, poignant, and inspirational, Stephen Walker's intimate documentary demonstrates that the Young@Heart chorus only gets better with age. (note courtesy of Sundance Film Festival)

DIR Stephen Walker; PROD Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner. USA, 2007, color, 109 min. Rated PG.

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