| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 57min |
| Country: | USA |
| Cast: | Sylvia Barnett, Avram Silvera, Helen Bienstock, Rose Herman, Morris Horowitz |
| Credits: | Directed by Owen Shapiro. |
Synopsis
And Many Happy Returns is a loosely constructed film that is bound by two scenes showing the arrival and departure of several women to the summer camp for the Jewish elderly at which they will spend two weeks. Within these bracketing scenes, we see men and women get to know one another, share experiences, discuss intimate stories from their lives, tell jokes, and gossip. Throughout, the film generates a humorous yet eliagic mood that speaks to the fragile nature of life's repeating cycles. Looming in the background is the Holocaust, as this camp is starkly different, yet hauntingly familiar from those of the Nazi Atrocities. While the film's characters are optimistic, fun loving, vigorous, and adventurous we can escape from the recognition that they are struggling with the loss of family, friends, and soon, themselves. And Many Happy Returns breaks down stereo-types about old age in an effort to portray it as being as full and complex as any of life's other stages.
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