My Old Ass (2024)
Directed by Megan Park
An 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. But when Elliott’s "old ass" starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn't do, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what's becoming a transformative summer.
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Plaza's character is not a hallucination, and Parker borrows elements from “Frequency” (2000), but instead of a HAM radio, cell phones connect them.
In fact, one can easily imagine this movie becoming a sleepover staple among teens at home for years to come, one where laugh-out-loud references to "Little Women" (Greta Gerwig's remake, of course), "Euphoria," and one particularly entertaining ode to Justin Bieber will hit squarely in the bullseye of their intended targets.
Spencer has a crush on Saoirse Ronan and watches “Little Women” (2019), which Greta Gerwig directed along with “Barbie” (2024) and incidentally Mattel doll personified Margot Robbie produced “My Old Ass.”
Speaking of the latter, Stella's Elliot might well be the most rounded teen protagonist in a coming-of-age movie since Saoirse Ronan (a figure who plays into one of the film's most notable visual gags) in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, for similar to that character, she is the kind of teen who, when we first meet her, feels as though she's got it all figured out.