What Draws So Many Boomers to America s Largest Retirement Community?
Charles Bramesco, provided by
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The retirement mega-community known as “The Villages” sprawls out over a slice of central Florida approximately 14 miles long and five miles across, a thick rectangle of land just northwest of Orlando. The geriatric paradise offers every form of recreation known to man against an immaculately manicured backdrop, making it one of America’s fastest-growing communities at 130,000 and counting and the setting of
Some Kind of Heaven, the debut documentary feature from 24-year-old filmmaker Lance Oppenheim.
His strange, wondrous film peels back the placid surface of the so-called “Disneyland for retirees” to reveal a current of unsatisfied yearning common to a few of the more disillusioned residents, as they contend with the feeling that something’s missing in the place that supposedly has everything. Oppenheim came prepared to address the generation