Abstract
Several memorable portrayals notwithstanding, most depictions of old age and aging in motion pictures are narrowly stereotypical, doing little justice to the complex and variable phenomena of old age. The following overview discusses the various reasons (cultural, political, economic, etc.) for the glaring paucity of believable, committed, and altogether worthwhile cinematic realizations of old age. The discussion distinguishes between representations of old age in the movies as a communication and social issue and the portrayal of the experience of old age via the cinematic medium and provides support for the latter as a means of enriching both humanistic gerontology and the study of cinema.
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