My Old Ass (2024)

On an outing in the woods to celebrate her eighteenth birthday with besties Ro (Kerrice Brooks) and Ruthie (Maddie Ziegler), Elliot (Maisy Stella) drinks some psychedelic mushroom-laced tea and comes face to face with her thirty-nine-year-old self (played by Aubrey Plaza). Excited to hear about what things are like after she heads to Toronto for college, effectively breaking out of her small world on her parents’ cranberry farm and experiencing the city life she feels she’s meant for, Young Elliot presses Old Elliot for details, but Old Elliot keeps mum on future specifics to not paradoxically mess things up for them. She does give her some unexpected advice, though: spend more time with your family and stay away from a dude named Chad. The latter part is the most confusing because Elliot is a lesbian. The duo exchange numbers on the off chance that they are able to communicate across decades, and it somehow works, which ends up being great because the name of the new summer hire on the farm happens to be Chad (Percy Hynes White). And to make things crazier, while trying to figure out what’s so wrong with him she needed a warning from her future self, Young Elliot starts falling for him and now has to newly define her sexual identity. Maisy starts out the film hooking up with Alexandria Rivera in a boat, right before she brings out her young ass for the first time on camera when she strips down to go skinny dipping. Sadly, despite the title, there’s no sign of Aubrey’s more mature moneymaker on screen, though she does sport some pokeys under a shirt when she magically returns. Her old ass may return to the screen in something, but this film ain’t it!