The Martha's Vineyard Times
Welcome to Disneyland for seniors
“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.