Our 10 Top Movies About Retirement
Category: General Retirement Issues
March 31, 2018 — Coming of age movies like The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, 2001: Space Odyssey, etc. became cultural icons for us baby boomers, back in the day. Producers of these blockbusters found huge audiences among our generation. Hollywood is still making movies for us today. Many aspects of the plots and characters are the same (love and loneliness, finding yourself), everybody is just a lot older! Special thanks to our traveling companion Deb (a tremendous fan of movies) for helping spark this idea.
Here are our top 10 movies (including 1 TV series) for baby boomers that touch on the topic of retirement. We hope that you will add your favorites too. We start our list with more recent movies, then go on to some oldies but goodies. Most are classics, definitely worth watching again.
The Leisure Seeker. (2018) Academy Award winner Helen Mirren
Comments on "Our 10 Top Movies About Retirement"
Tomi says:
Lost in America. Classic
ella says:
If you've read the book, Under the Tuscan Sun, you will know that the movie is not based on Frances Mayes’ book, although it's supposed to be! In the book, Frances Mayes is married; in the book she's a sex-starved single woman. (And the changes go on and on. All bad!) I watched it for about 10 minutes and decided i either had early dementia or the movie was a horrible rendition of a terrific book!
Jan Cullinane says:
"About Schmidt" with Jack Nicholson (2002)
85% on Rotten Tomatoes. Worth watching.
RichPB says:
Have not read "Under a Tuscan Sun" and the movie did not encourage me I Believe the correct movie title is "Mr. Blevedere Rings the Bell" and, if so, deserves mention. About Schmidt has so much to say it almost does not qualify for the term "retirement":
Tomi says:
About Schmidt. So great
Linda says:
Just recently watched and enjoyed "Silver Skies" that features George Hamilton. A synopsis: "Eccentric retirees' lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is suddenly sold out from under them."
dick gorman says:
About Schmidt was certainly a classic.
Jan Cullinane says:
Even though it's not a movie, who remembers the "Kick the Can" Twilight Zone episode? (1962)
It's a classic: About the people living in a "retirement home" and one man's attempt to regain his youth. He believes if he acts young, he will become young.
Rich Friedman says:
“I’ll see you in my dreams” starring Sam Elliot and Blythe Danner. Very humorous drama set in a WestCoast retirement community. Sam Elliot is every 70 ish retirees idol and Blythe Danner puts women 1/2 her age to shame!!
Dave says:
"A Walk in the Woods" (2015) with Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson was an enjoyable 100 minutes to spend with a couple of retired old codgers.
Tomi says:
I remember the Twilight episode. I love that show.