
Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does a chain-smoking, beer-drinking centenarian marathoner have all the answers? What about an elder porn star? Wexler contrasts these unusual characters with the insights of health, fitness and life-extension experts in his engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with c... (Full plot summary below)
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Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does a chain-smoking, beer-drinking centenarian marathoner have all the answers? What about an elder porn star? Wexler contrasts these unusual characters with the insights of health, fitness and life-extension experts in his engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Begun as a study in life-extension, HOW TO LIVE FOREVER evolves into a thought-provoking examination of what truly gives life meaning.
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| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyWe all know life is a crapshoot, but we want to hedge our bets. You could get a few good tips from watching this joyous celebration of the precious seconds we spend on the planet. |
| Boston PhoenixChris FaraoneAn expert documentary, a responsible yet lighthearted film about the absurd things that folks do in the face of death. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrA cheerfully rambling documentary that's much more thought-provoking than the sum of its parts. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIf someone could give you a pill that allowed you to live for 500 years, would you take it? Not me. |
| Village VoiceNick SchagerSuffice it to say, life's too short for such self-indulgent glibness. |
| Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttHow To Live Forever is less about how to delay or defeat death than a film about what gives life meaning. |
| The New York TimesRachel SaltzMr. Wexler has found interesting people and useful, funny and sometimes crackpot-seeming information. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyThe prospects, advisability and potential methods of prolonging human life are examined in an engagingly multifaceted manner in How to Live Forever. |
| Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesWexler emerges from all this with the commonplace wisdom that laughter and a positive outlook both prolong life and make it worth living, though his vocal concern with his own aging keeps the film from growing pat. |
| AV ClubSam AdamsWexler breaks the cardinal rule of first-person documentaries: Don't make yourself the subject unless you're worth paying attention to. |