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Plot summary
The Cappa family, Guy and Prisca and their children Maddox and Trent, travel to a tropical resort for one last vacation as the parents separate. At the hotel, Madrid serves the couple complimentary drinks, and the children befriend Idlib, the nephew of the resort manager Nils. Nils invites them to a secluded beach, where the rapper Brendan, who goes by Mid-Sized Sedan, his companion, surgeon Charles with his mother Agnes, his wife Chrystal and daughter Kara, and Jarin and Patricia Carmichael have gathered. On that sand, the group ages rapidly.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Old (2021)
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- M. Night Shyamalan's Old was the first film shot in the Dominican Republic during the pandemic, and no one on the shoot tested positive for COVID-19; Shyamalan paid for the production crew's ten-week stay at a hotel.
- Bryan Cranston turned down a role in Old because of a scheduling conflict caused by filming Your Honor in New Orleans.
- M. Night Shyamalan adapted the French graphic novel Sandcastle, by Swiss authors Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters, after his three daughters gave it to him as a collective Father's Day gift in 2017.
- Old is the first film of M. Night Shyamalan's career with no shooting around his hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Alex Wolff recalled passing out during the filming of the pregnancy scene due to high temperatures; he and Thomasin McKenzie were the first actors cast, after submitting audition tapes.
