How to Live Forever (2011)

6.0/10 92 min Documentary

Overview

Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack LaLanne have all the answers, or does Buster, a 101-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner? What about futurist Ray Kurzweil, a laughter yoga expert, or an elder porn star? Wexler explores the viewpoints of delightfully unusual characters alongside those of health, fitness and life-extension experts in this engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Begun as a study in life-extension, How To Live Forever evolves into a thought-provoking examination of what truly gives life meaning.

Cast

Ray Kurzweil

Self

Aubrey de Grey

Self

Ray Bradbury

Self

Suzanne Somers

Self

Phyllis Diller

Self

Marianne Williamson

Self

Jack LaLanne

Self

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