Van-living ladies man from The Villages documentary says he had to leave town
Dennis Dean and the other subjects of âSome Kind of Heavenâ discuss their new recognition.
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Some Kind of Heaven are taking different things away from their movie star experience.
The production wrapped filming in Floridaâs massive planned community for retirees, The Villages, in the summer of 2019. It premiered a few weeks ago in theaters and streaming on demand.
Dennis Dean, the 83-year-old California drifter who in the film cruises community pools looking for well-off women who might provide him a cushy lifestyle, said heâs still crashing in his van and working his pick-up âsystem.â Heâs just not in The Villages anymore.
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“Some Kind of Heaven” opened at the M.V. Film Center and virtually last week. This upbeat documentary is directed by awardwinning Lance Oppenheim, who grew up near its topic, the Florida retirement community called the Villages, and decided to investigate it cinematically. A suburban utopia in Central Florida for seniors 55 and older, the Villages is the largest such senior citizen colony in the U.S. With the goal of creating a “warm, beautiful, secure, and friendly community,” owner Harold Schwartz founded it in the mid-’80s, and the original 800 residents of the Villages have expanded to 130,000.
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Some Kind Of Heaven, an entrancing new documentary about life in a massive Florida retirement community, the mind may drift to a whole library of movies about the plastic unreality of suburban life. Partially, that’s because the film’s director, 24-year-old Lance Oppenheim, plainly takes some cues, visual and tonal, from touchstones of the genre. But it’s also because his subject, the so-called “Disney World for retirees,” was essentially built from the same psychic blueprint as those films: the nostalgic dream image of an unblemished American yesterday, a boomer paradise more imagined than remembered. What Oppenheim has found, in his first feature film, is a real place every bit as art-directed as
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